Crucify
['kruːsɪfaɪ] or ['krʊsə'fai]
Definition
(verb.) kill by nailing onto a cross; 'Jesus Christ was crucified'.
Editor: Margaret--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
(v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
(v. t.) To vex or torment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Put to death upon the cross.[2]. Subdue (as the passions, by Christian principles), overcome, mortify.
Editor: Sasha
Definition
v.t. to put to death by fixing the hands and feet to a cross: to subdue completely: to mortify: to torment:—pa.p. cru′cified.—ns. Crucifī′er one who crucifies; Cru′cifix a figure or picture of Christ fixed to the cross; Crucifix′ion death on the cross esp. that of Christ.—adjs. Cru′ciform in the form of a cross; Crucig′erous bearing a cross.
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Examples
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had the physician crucified! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next thing he has a strong yearning to see is the spot where the Saviour was crucified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Only a year or two ago he was here for the thirty-seventh time since Jesus was crucified on Calvary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We have already mentioned (chap, xxxi, § 5) the Persian Mani who was crucified and flayed in the year 277. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We read of horrible cruelties in the suppression of these troubles by Hamilcar, the Carthaginian general; of men being crucified by the thousand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We visited a Jesuit cathedral nearly two hundred years old and found in it a piece of the veritable cross upon which our Saviour was crucified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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