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Definition of Sacrificeable
1. Adjective. May be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective.
Definition of Sacrificeable
1. Adjective. able to be used as a sacrifice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrificeable
Literary usage of Sacrificeable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"yet might it be restrained in the sense, for whatsoever was sacrificeable and
justly subject to lawful immolation; and so would not have sacrificed either ..."
2. The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints by Jacobus, William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis (1900)
"... it is a beast sacrificeable. And truly, how that Luke was ordained in the four
things, it is better showed in the ordinance of his life. ..."
3. The Theological Review by Charles Beard (1879)
"... nothing inconsistent with their pretensions,—a history which would admit no
sacrifices, no distinction of clean (ie sacrificeable) and unclean beasts, ..."
4. Oral Reading & Public Speaking by John Reinder Pelsma (1918)
"She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificeable to his desires,
and sent a polite note of refusal; on receiving which he procured a ..."
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