Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sacrific .
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- adjective obsolete
sacrificial
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now another crime has been committed in the same place, the murder of a twelve-year-old girl whose body has been found on an ancient sacrifical stone altar, which disquietingly shows faint traces of blood that may come from the old crime.
Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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As an ordinary rec cyclist, I appreciate your sacrifical efforts to keep us informed of these diabolical efforts to destroy cycling.
Instant Icons: Design Run A-Meh BikeSnobNYC 2010
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When will McFlipflop realize ... he was the "sacrifical lamb" ... who in their right might would run after Bush's idiotic policiies.
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Believe it or not, sacrifical lamb cakes as they call them are actually a thing.
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He is becoming the republican sacrifical lamb .....
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On the other hand, there is sacrifical interpretation of Jesus' death, and reference to us offering our bodies as living sacrifices, but in both cases it is God who is the recipient of the sacrifices in question.
Jared Calaway Has Finished With The Only True God James F. McGrath 2009
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St. Therese was only indicating her "immense desires" to imitate the "soul" of the priest, in total sacrifical self-giving.
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Most political observers had anticipated Tennessee Democrats to put up a sacrifical lamb against Alexander.
Happy Hour Roundup 2009
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It's stuff like this that makes me suspect that McCain is just a sacrifical lamb.
McCain Surrogate: He Might Withdraw From Iraq Sooner Than Obama! 2009
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And we thought all the stories about howhe abuses her and offering her up as a sacrificial wet-t-shirt-sacrifical-lamb to score political points was bad.
McCain-the-Coward Hides Behind the Skirts of Two Woman:Their Rabble-rousing Bites Him Hard 2008
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