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[1], 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.
italicized as mention of a word in another lanugage?
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. [...]
