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sagittary, n. and a.|ˈsædʒɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. sagittārius adj., pertaining to arrows, as n. an archer; f. sagitta arrow. Cf. F. sagittaire.]
A. n.
†1. Astr. = Sagittarius 1. Obs.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. xi. 102 The sonne entred the sygne of Sagitary that is the Archer. a1547Copland Hye Way to Spyttel Hous 89 Scorpio, pisces or sagyttary. 1641Witt's Recr. X 8 b, If thou wouldst please the lasse that thou dost marry The signe must ever be in Sagittary. 1683Tryon Way to Health xxi. (1697) 445 Being under the Dominion of Jupiter and Mercury, in the Sign Sagitary. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliii. IV. 322 While the sun was in Capricorn, another comet appeared to follow in the Sagitary.
2. A centaur; spec. the centaur who according to mediæval romance fought in the Trojan army, against the Greeks.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. (Percy Soc.) 40 Unto the Sagittary They feyne the Centures to be of lykenesse, As halfe man and halfe horse truely. 1589Greene Tullies Love To Rdr., Chiron the Sagitarie was but a fained conceipt. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. v. 14 The dreadfull Sagittary Appauls our numbers. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 158 The Castle is..defended by a troop of leane fac't, beardlesse, memberless Eunuchs, who like so many angry Sagittaries guard their ladies. a1859L. Hunt Cambus Khan Poems (1860) 165 A chief who had a mother a sea⁓fairy And slew a terror called the sagittary.
¶b. ? As the name of an inn.
For the disproof of C. Knight's conjecture that this was a name for the Arsenal at Venice, see the note on the passage in H. H. Furness Variorum Shakspere.
Cf. ‘Centaur’ as the sign of an imaginary inn at Ephesus in Comedy of Errors i. ii. 9.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. i. 159 Lead to the Sagitary [1st Qo., 1622 sagittar] the raised Search. Ibid. i. iii. 115.
3. A representation of a centaur or of a mounted archer; spec. in Her. = Sagittarius 2.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. i. (1660) 5 The Persians [bare] an Archer or Sagitary stamped on their coynes. 1849Freeman Archit. 250 The sagittary, or mounted archer, the badge of King Stephen, is not unfrequently met with.
†4. A daric, because the figure of an archer was stamped on one side. Obs. rare.
Cf. Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2, 1638) 230, referring to Plutarch Agesilaus.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 243 Timagoras..had received a bribe of ten thousand Dariques or Sagittaries.
5. An archer.
1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 175 The imperial sagittary [Commodus],..whose hand was so steady and whose eye so true, that he was never known to miss. 1863Pilgrimage over Prairies I. 275 Seeing how certain was my fate, remaining where I was, I darted towards the bank, to engage the fell sagittary at close quarters.
†B. adj. Pertaining to arrows. Obs.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts i. (1683) 82 With such differences of Reeds, Vallatory, Sagittary, Scriptory, and others they might be furnished in Judæa. |