Meanings
comparative more sacrifical · superlative most sacrifical
- obsoleteObsolete form of sacrificial.
1 more example
The Oppoſition inſiſted, that the victims were not fat nor fair enough to be offered on the altars of blaſphemed Regicide; and it was inferred from thence, that the ſacrifical miniſters, (who were a ſort of intruders in the worſhip of the new divinity) in their ſchiſmatical devotion had diſcovered more of hypocriſy than zeal.
1797, Edmund Burke, “Letter III.”, in A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], →OCLC, page 12
Origin
- Latinsacrificālis
- Englishsacrifical
From Latin sacrificālis. By surface analysis, sacrifice + -al.
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