Meaning of victimary | Babel Free

Definitions

A person whose role it is to kill the sacrificial victim(s) during a ritual sacrifice.

historical

Examples

“Two of the ministri support a pole or brancard, from which hangs a situla (pail with handles); a third has charge of a huge ox, over whose head floats a bird like Progne; whilst a victimary drags by the horns a goat, sacred to Mars.”

CEFR level