cruciate
Adjective
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Adjective
- In the form of a cross; cruciform.
- Overlapping or crossing.
- (obsolete) tormented.
- 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches.
- In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.
, Sir Thomas Elyot, The Book of the Governor. - Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.
- 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches.
cruciate (cruciates, present participle cruciating; 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.
, Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls. - The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.
- 1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches.
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