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1740, Samuel Johnson (vicar of Great Torrington), The Eucharistical Service, page 47:he willingly submitted to their Power, and yielded his Body into the Hands of the Mactators. Here are manifest and significant Actions to assure us of Christ's free and actual Oblation of his own Body and Blood, Jesus therefore knowing all Things that should come upon him, says St. John, went forth,
1827 January 18, The London Magazine, page 202:And we are confident, that not one of these heroic mactators would have made room to extricate a shrieking victim, though he knew, to a probability, that he had a wife or child among the crowd, whose death-cry it might be.
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2018 August 31, Jeroen Windmeijer, St Paul’s Labyrinth, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:The editor gives a small nod of approval, upon which the venator at the eastern gate comes forward to place a special headcovering on the mactator's head – a soft, red conical cap with a point that falls forwards – and hand him the linteum, the half circle of red flannel, draped over a wooden rod. The taurarius walks back to the bull.
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