cruciate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cruciatus.

Adjective

cruciate

1. In the form of a cross; cruciform.
2. Overlapping or crossing.
3. (obsolete) tormented.
   • 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches.

     In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Sir Thomas Elyot, The Book of the Governor.

     Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.

Derived terms

• cruciate anastomosis
• cruciate crural ligament
• cruciate eminence
• cruciate ligament
• cruciately
• cruciate muscle
• cruciate sulcus

 

Verb

1. (obsolete) To torture; to torment.
   • 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches.

     They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls.

     The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.

Related terms

• excruciate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cruciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cicurate

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cruciāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cruciō