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Ornith.: Ibis religiosa , worshiped by the ancient Egyptians. (Cic., de Nat . Deor ., i. 36; Juv., xv. 3.) sacred-place, s . 1. Ord. Lang. (pl.): [HOLY-PLACES.] 2. Law: The place where a person is buried. sacred-standard, s. The Labarum (q. v.). sacred-war, s. History, .: A war about sacred places or about religion. Four sacred wars were waged in Greece (В. С. 595-338) chiefly for the defense of the temple of Delphi and the sacred territory surrounding it. A Mohammedan war for the faith is called a Jihad (q. v.). The Crusades and the wars of the Reform a tion were sacred wars. The quarrel which led to the Crime an war was at first a dispute between Ru ia and France about sacred spots at Jeru- salem. When Ru ia fights, she uniformly gives out that it is a holy war; and after the destruction of the Turkish fleet at Sinope (Nov. 30, 1853), it was officially or semi-officially intimated that "the most pious Czar thanks the Lord of Lords for the arms which succe of the victorious Ru ian triumphed in the sacred combat for the orthodox faith." "To sacrifice his outcomes of wether lambs and draft London Daily Telegraph. B. In trans. To offer up a sacrifice or sacrifices; to make offerings to God, or to a divinity or deity, by the slaughter and burning of victims, or of some part of them, on an altar. "The Lacedæmonians had a peculiar custom of sac . rificing to the Muses."-Potter: Antiquities of Greece, bk. iii., ch. ix. săc-ri-fiçe, *sac-ri-fise, s . [Fr. sacrifice , from Lat. sacrificium , from sucer sacred, and facio to make; Sp. & Port. sacrificio ; Ital. sacrificio , sacri fizio.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) The offering of anything to God or to any deity or divinity. ( Chaucer : C. T. , 2,283.) (2) That which is sacrificed, offered, or consecrated to God or to any deity or divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar or otherwise religiously presented by way of thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. "The soothsayers inspected all the sacrifices , to presage the succe of the battle."- Potter : Antiquities of Greece, bk. iii., ch. ix. IMG:content-0872.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Compar. Relig .: Sacrifices form an important part of all early forms of religion. Tylor ( Prim . Cult ., ch. xviii.) traces three stages in the devel- opment of the rite. (1) The gift-theory, in which the deity takes and values the offering for himself; (2) the homage-theory, in which the submi ion or IMG:content-0873.png:[blocks in formation] Daily News. tsa-crif-ic, *sa-crif-ic-al, a . [Lat. sacrificus , sacrificalis .] [SACRIFICE, 8.] Employed in sacrifice. tsa-crif-ic-a-ble, a . [English sacrifice ; -able .] Capable of being offered in sacrifice. "Whatsoever was sac rif i cable , and justly subject to law ful immolation." - Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. v., ch. xiv. tsa-crif-ic-ant, s. [Lat. sacrificans , pr. par. of sacrifico = to sacrifice (q. v.).] One who offers a sacrifice. "To gratify the sacrificants with the destruction of any person."- Hall i well: Metamorphoses, p. 102.