贄にえ

noun

offering; sacrificial offering

Archaic term for an offering made to gods or the emperor, often a food or animal sacrifice.

• 古こ事じ記きには、神かみに贄にえを捧ささげる儀ぎ式しきが記しるされている。

  The Kojiki records rituals in which offerings are presented to the gods.

noun

gift; present

Rare, archaic use for a gift, especially one given to a superior.

• 昔むかしの文ぶん献けんでは、贄にえが贈おくり物ものの意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In old documents, 贄 is sometimes used to mean a gift.

noun

sacrifice; victim

Figurative use for a person or thing sacrificed for a cause; often appears in set phrases like 犠牲 (ぎせい) in modern Japanese, but 贄 can carry a more literary or archaic tone.

• 彼かれは戦せん争そうの贄にえとなった。

  He became a sacrifice of war.