2. Verb. (third-person singular of sacrifice) ¹
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Definition of Sacrifices
1. sacrifice [v] - See also: sacrifice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrifices
Literary usage of Sacrifices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"sacrifices in a wider sense would also embrace the DONARIA ; in a narrower sense
sacrificia ... We shall divide all sacrifices into two great divisions, ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Now let all people consider what good your house full of sacrifices doth with
strife, when a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, is better ? ..."
3. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1885)
"SECTION II At the border sacrifices a single victim was used, and at the altars
to (the spirits of) the land and grain there was (the full complement of) ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Perquisites: The income of the priest consisted of his portion from sacrifices,
other religious assessments, and income from private sources. ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"4 From this proceeding we gather that the twofold sacrifices of "the peoples"
were even from the very beginning foreshown. In short, when the sacerdotal ..."
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