† sagittar Obs. rare.
Forms: 4 sagittaire, 7 sagittar.
[a. F. sagittaire (12th. c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. sagittārius.]
= Sagittarius 1.
| 1390 Gower Conf. III. 123 The Sagittaire. Ibid. 127 Libra..and Sagittaire. 1604–22 [see sagittary A. 2 b]. 1634 T. Carew Cœlum Brit. Wks. (1824) 160 The centaure the horn'd goatfish capricorne, The snake-head gorgon, and fierce sagittar. |