4. To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
[Tradesmen's Cant]
Sac"ri*fice, v. i. To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things
consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
O teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who
well had sacrificed.
Milton.
Sac"ri*fi`cer (?), n. One who sacrifices.
Sac`ri*fi"cial (?), a. Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices;
consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice. "Sacrificial rites."
Jer. Taylor.
Sac"ri*lege (?), n. [F. sacrilège, L. sacrilegium, from sacrilegus that
steals, properly, gathers or picks up, sacred things; sacer sacred +
legere to gather, pick up. See Sacred, and Legend.] The sin or crime of
violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to
common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious
persons or uses.
And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig.
Spenser.
Families raised upon the ruins of churches, and enriched with the
spoils of sacrilege.
South.
Sac`ri*le"gious (?), a. [From sacrilege: cf. L. sacrilegus.] Violating
sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane;
impious.
Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.
Pope.
-- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
Sac"ri*le`gist (?), n. One guilty of sacrilege.
Sac"ring (?), a. & n. from Sacre.
Sacring bell. See Sanctus bell, under Sanctus.
Sa"crist (?), n. [LL. sacrista. See Sacristan.] A sacristan; also, a
person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and
take care of the books.
Sac"ris*tan (?), n. [F. sacristain, LL. sacrista, fr. L. sacer. See
Sacred, and cf. Sexton.] An officer of the church who has the care of
the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
Sac"ris*ty (?), n.; pl. Sacristies (#). [F. sacristie, LL. sacristia,
fr. L. sacer. See Sacred.] An apartment in a church where the sacred
utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Sa"cro- (&?;). (Anat.) A combining form denoting connection with, or
relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccygeal, sacro-iliac,
sacrosciatic.
Sac"ro*sanct (?), a. [L. sucrosanctus.] Sacred; inviolable. [R.] Dr. H.
More.
Sa`cro*sci*at"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sacrum
and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic
ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.
Sa`cro*ver"te*bral (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sacrum and
that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the
sacrovertebral angle.
||Sa"crum (?), n.; pl. sacra (&?;). [NL., fr. L. sacer sacred, os
||sacrum the lowest bone of the spine.] (Anat.) That part of the
||vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part
||of, the pelvis.
It may consist of a single vertebra or of several more or less
consolidated. In man it forms the dorsal, or posterior, wall of the
pelvis, and consists of five united vertebræ, which diminish in size
very rapidly to the posterior extremity, which bears the coccyx.
Sacs (sks), n. pl.; sing. Sac (&?;). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians,
which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about
Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Written also Sauks.]
Sad (sd), a. [Compar. Sadder (?); supperl. Saddest.] [OE. sad sated,
tired, satisfied, firm, steadfast, AS. sæd satisfied, sated; akin to D.
zat, OS. sad, G. satt, OHG. sat, Icel. saðr, saddr, Goth. saþs, Lith.
sotus, L. sat, satis, enough, satur sated, Gr. 'a`menai to satiate,
'a`dnh enough. Cf. Assets, Sate, Satiate, Satisfy, Satire.] 1. Sated;
satisfied; weary; tired. [Obs.]
Yet of that art they can not waxen sad, For unto them it is a
bitter sweet.
Chaucer.
2. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard. [Obs., except in a few
phrases; as, sad bread.]
His hand, more sad than lump of lead.
Spenser.
Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad.
Mortimer.
3. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "Sad-colored clothes."
Walton.
Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all
sad colors.
Mortimer.
4. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous. [Obs.]
"Ripe and sad courage." Chaucer.
Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.
Bacon.
Which treaty was wisely handled by sad and discrete counsel of both
parties.
Ld. Berners.
5. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction;
downcast; gloomy; mournful.
First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you
come so unprovided.
Shak.
The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad.
Milton.
6. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad
misfortune.
7. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked. [Colloq.] "Sad tipsy
fellows, both of them." I. Taylor.
Sad is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining compounds;
as, sad-colored, sad-eyed, sad-hearted, sad-looking, and the like.
Sad bread, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.] Bartlett.
Syn. -- Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless;
downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous; afflictive; calamitous.