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performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of. Led like a victim, to my death I'll go. Dryden.

To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

n the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon. The Inquisition branded its victims with infamy. Prescott. There were the enormities, branded and condemned by the first and most natural verdict of common humanity. South.

To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

ame, any swindling operation in which advantage is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler. -- Confidence man, a swindler. -- To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

f the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. Thackeray. -- To do withal, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." Shak. -- To do without, to get along without; to dispense with. -- To have done, to have made an end or conclusio…

n. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

sier both to freight, and to hale ashore. Milton. As some dark priest hales the reluctant victim. Shelley.

oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.