victimary

plural victimaries

1. historicalA person whose role it is to kill the sacrificial victim(s) during a ritual sacrifice.

   Two of the ministri support a pole or brancard, from which hangs a situla (pail with handles); a third has charge of a huge ox, over whose head floats a bird like Progne; whilst a victimary drags by the horns a goat, sacred to Mars.

   1876, Richard Francis Burton, Etruscan Bologna: A Study, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 43

comparative more victimary · superlative most victimary

1. rareRelating to victim(s) or victimhood.

   Ansay reinserts the victim at the heart of what the violence of independence can signify: the second part of the text leaves behind the revolutionary government's processes of self-construction and represents the experience of independence exclusively from this victimary perspective.

   2022, Catriona McAllister, Literary Reimaginings of Argentina's Independence: History, Fiction, Politics, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, page 42