Sagittary

Meaning

(archaic) A centaur, half-human and half-horse..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

the dreadful Sagittary / Appals our numbers

[...] lion, to tread down all that shall oppose them; and though many sagittaries shall appear in defence of the Lilies, yet shall they not prevail ; because the dull animal of the North shall be put to confusion; and though it be against […] the chief strength of France, consisting of horsemen who appeared like sagittaries, that is to say half men and half horses: […]

... 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.

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[…]

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

[The coat-]of-arms of Normandy is "Gules, two lions guardant or," and it is supposed that this coat was used by our Norman kings with the exception of Stephen - who is credited with three centaurs with bows and arrows - Sagittaries.

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