sacrificers

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of sacrificer.
  sacrificer

  noun

  a person, such as a worshiper or priest, who offers a religious sacrifice.

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sacrificers

Under him was a large number of subordinate priests and temple ministers, such as sacrificers, pourers of libations, anointers with oil, bakers, chanters, wailers, etc.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen

These were the Sadducees and the Pharisees, who were drawn to Machaerus by the same ambition: the one party hoping to be appointed public sacrificers, the other determined to retain those offices.

From Herodias by Gustave Flaubert

They are, next to the sacrificers, the most important persons about the temples.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

At the point and on the day assigned, all the sacrificers assemble, or possibly one member of each of the families who are in mourning, at times fifty or more.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

The sacrificers consumed the rest, as in the Hebrew thank-offerings and among the Egyptians and Indians, in a sacred festive meal; among the Arcadians, masters and slaves altogether.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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