sacrifical
English
Etymology
From Latin sacrificālis.[1] By surface analysis, sacrifice + -al.
Adjective
sacrifical (comparative more sacrifical, superlative most sacrifical)
- Obsolete form of sacrificial.
- 1797, Edmund Burke, “Letter III.”, in A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France, London: […] F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […]; sold also by J[ohn] Hatchard, […], →OCLC, page 12:
- The Oppoſition inſiſted, that the victims were not fat nor fair enough to be offered on the altars of blaſphemed Regicide; and it was inferred from thence, that the ſacrifical miniſters, (who were a ſort of intruders in the worſhip of the new divinity) in their ſchiſmatical devotion had diſcovered more of hypocriſy than zeal.
References
- ^ “sacrifical, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sacrificālis. By surface analysis, sacrificiu + -al.
Adjective
sacrifical m or n (feminine singular sacrificală, masculine plural sacrificali, feminine/neuter plural sacrificale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | sacrifical | sacrificală | sacrificali | sacrificale | |||
| definite | sacrificalul | sacrificala | sacrificalii | sacrificalele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | sacrifical | sacrificale | sacrificali | sacrificale | |||
| definite | sacrificalului | sacrificalei | sacrificalilor | sacrificalelor | ||||
References
- sacrifical in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN