Do but observe,' said a third, who was a fabricant of bronze, 'how yon Nazarene scowls at the piety of the sacrificial procession.
Wine and viands strewed the table; the remains of a sacrificial feast.
Ranged now on either side the steps was the sacrificial crowd, arrayed in white garments, while at the summit stood two of the inferior priests, the one holding a palm branch, the other a slender sheaf of corn.
His eyes, glaring round, rested on a sacrificial axe, which some priest had left in the chamber: he seized it.
At the new moon, and at the full moon, they bound and fastened together the sacrificial wood and the Kusa-grass.
The Apamarga, an Indian variety of this plant, has given the name to the sacrificial rite called Apamarga Homa, because at daybreak they offer a handful of flour made from the seeds of the Apamarga (Achyranthes aspera).
Haug, the plant at present used by the sacrificial priests of the Dekhan is not the sacred Soma of the Vedas, although it appears to belong to the same order.
The Vervain, or Verbena, has from time immemorial been the symbol of enchantment, and the most ancient nations employed this plant in their divinations, sacrificial and other rites, and in incantations.
Kuhn thinks the tree itself (Bocksdorn) was so called from the sacrificial buck-goat which was burned upon its wood in heathen times.
In India, Greece, and Rome, the sacrificial priests were crowned, and their victims were decorated with garlands of flowers.
The employment of Corn in sacrificial rites, was common in India of the Vedic period, in Greece, and in Rome; and in the same countries we find Corn used during nuptial ceremonies.
The baskets in which they were immolated were composed of Oaken twigs, and the brands with which the sacrificial fires were kindled were cut from Oak-trees.
They were being hurried on to Kumassi to be sold to King Prempeh forsacrificial purposes.
Around the sacrificial bowl were grouped a dozen or more royal executioners with their faces whitewashed and hideously decorated.
Was he to put down such numbers as those in his sacrificial catalogue?
It has been said that there is nothing so exciting in trade as a grand final sacrificial sale.
The link of ideal connection is to be found in the sacrificial office of the primitive rex.
Illustration: Gunungan, or Pile of Sacrificial Food, as offered by women on Garebeg Mulud, the feast of the nativity of Nabi Muhamed, the Great Prophet.
But there is a distinguishing detail about Javanese sacrificial rites,--a feature, which one is never quite sure whether to call eminently spiritual or naively gross and selfish.
It would be somewhat invidious to inquire whether piety or appetite be the impelling motive; but, from whatever cause, the Javanese are most assiduous in the performance of sacrificial rites.
We all bleed on secretsacrificial altars, we all burn and broil in honour of ancient idols.
And the spirit's happiness is this: to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a sacrificial victim,--did ye know that before?
Therefore, all colleges, schools, and public bodies are ordered to revive the sacrificial ceremony of Confucius, which shall be carefully and minutely ordained.
The fragrance of the bounteous, sacrificial blooms saturates miles of air, while their refuse tricks out the webs of spiders great and small with fictitious favours, and carpets the earth with inconstant gold.
Tear down your idols; they can hear you not; turn all your sacrificial altars into fuel for the flames.
He preached the brotherhood of life, the righteousness of equal rights, and taught the uselessness of priests, and sacrificial rites.
Just give your life in sacrificialservice to the all of life, and God is pleased.
And then the Holy One breathes deep upon your glowing sacrificial coals, and makes them blaze aloft to fill your souls with light, and strength and helpfulness.
Our people have exalted sacrificialrites and have neglected mercy, justice and the rights of men.
Yet nothing would be a greater violation than giving the remains of a sacrificial feast to the dogs, or even suffering them to touch the bones.
Enlarge our hearts to comprehend the sorrow, and may we share the sufferings of our Lord in sacrificial labors.
We have the skin of religion without its sacrificial heart.
The two chief elements of Greek worship, however, are not consideration of the future, but sacrificial and prayer.
The Peruvians ate sacrificial cakes kneaded with the blood of human victims, "as a mark of alliance with the Inca.
Among the West African tribes sacrificial and ceremonial cannibalism in fetich affairs is almost universal.
Returned from far, thou found'st Thy son had Christian died, and saw'st the Cross On Christian graves: and ill thy heart endured That tomb so dear should lack its reverence meet.
Thus Patrick, once by man advised in part, Though wont to counsel with his God alone.
It includes, therefore, much that is of later date than the fifth century.
We come from a Kingdom far off yet near Which the wise love well, and the wicked fear: We come with blessing and come with ban, We come from the Kingdom of God with man.
From his heart to his brow the blood makes path, And hangs there, a red cloud, beneath his crown.
The chiefs and the captains with drawn swords rose: To avenge their Lord and the Realm they swore; The Druids rose and their garments tore; "The strangers to us and our Gods are foes!
Having in this way rejected the sacramental system and the sacrificial character of the Mass, it was only natural that he should disregard the priesthood, and proclaim that all believers were priests.
The movable jaws here give the thing a likeness to certain Continental figures representing other kinds of animals and probably witnessing to their former sacrificial use.
We have here to do with one of those strange animal forms which are apparently relics of sacrificial customs.
Lastly a Russian game may be mentioned, though it has no sacrificial suggestion.
The most interesting of Scottish New Year customs, considered as religious survivals, is a practice found in the Highlands on New Year's Eve, and evidently of sacrificial origin.
In displays of this kind the pig's head is specially conspicuous, and points to the time when the swine was a favourite sacrificial animal.
These of course are nowadays mere luxuries, but they may well have had some sort of sacrificial origin.
We have noted a connection, partial at least, between Christmas good cheer and sacrifice; let us now glance at a few customs of a different character but seemingly of sacrificial origin.
At last, when he had reached the highest stage of sacrificial sanctity, he proceeded to the altar, waited on by cardinals and bishops.
The sacrificial giving of the native Church is a revelation of the great depth and sincerity of their Christian life.
It is life laid down for him which gives joy to the heart of the sacrificial Savior.
Victor had less to reproach himself with on this point; but Clotilda shamed him, for her longest and shortest days, as is the case with most of her sex, were nothing but sacrificial days.
When I come back hither four weeks hence," thought he, "it will only be to see the death-angel lay my Emanuel on the altar and under the sacrificial knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacrificial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
