Sagittary

Quick meaning: Sagittary is a noun meaning (heraldry, often capitalized) A mythical compound creature, resembling a centaur (half-human, half-horse) or a half-human, half-lion, often armed with a bow and arrows.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (archaic) A centaur, half-human and half-horse.
2. (archaic) An archer; by extension, a coin used in ancient Persia and Greece featuring an archer.

Example Sentences

the dreadful Sagittary / Appals our numbers

And all beasts azure are armed gules, and vice versa. The Sagittary is well known as the representation of the […]

Gules, three sagittaries, in pale, or. These sagittaries are generally blazoned as compound creatures, half man and half lion, as in Fig. 19.

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.

Word Forms

• sagittaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include centaur, archer, centaurdom, centauress, satyr, satyre.

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