sagittary

noun
/ˈsæd͡ʒɪtəɹi/

Etymology

From Latin sagittarius, from sagitta (“arrow”). Doublet of Sagittarius.

  1. derived from sagittarius

Definitions

  1. A centaur, half-human and half-horse.

    • the dreadful Sagittary / Appals our numbers
    • ... Hard by the condor's eyrie and caverns of the cougar, The centaurs dwell, those savage sagittaries, With their shoulders unharnessed nor their trampling hooves shod But their broad brows are brother to the human.
  2. A mythical compound creature, resembling a centaur (half-human, half-horse) or a…

    A mythical compound creature, resembling a centaur (half-human, half-horse) or a half-human, half-lion, often armed with a bow and arrows.

    • Gules, three Sagittaries - or, three torteaux. Stephen's cognizance was a Sagittary, because he entered England when the Sun was in that sign, and was greatly indebted for his success to mounted archers.
    • And all beasts azure are armed gules, and vice versa. The Sagittary is well known as the representation of the […]
    • to have borne on a red shield, three golden centaurs armed with bows and arrows, or "Sagittaries;" it has been conjectured, however, that this idea may have arisen from the circumstance of the "Sagittary" having been Stephen's[…]
  3. An archer

    An archer; by extension, a coin used in ancient Persia and Greece featuring an archer.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Obsolete form of Sagittarius.

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