cruciate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
(adjective)
(verb)
Adjective[edit]
cruciate (comparative more cruciate, superlative most cruciate)
- In the form of a cross; cross-shaped; cruciform.
- Overlapping or crossing.
- (obsolete) Tormented.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.
- 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
- In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in the form of a cross — see cruciform
Verb[edit]
cruciate (third-person singular simple present cruciates, present participle cruciating, simple past and past participle cruciated)
- (obsolete) To torture; to torment.
- 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:
- They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.
- a. 1680, Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls
- The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “cruciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
cruciāte