cruciate

English

Etymology

From Latin cruciatus.

Pronunciation

(adjective)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuː.ʃi.ət/, /ˈkɹuː.si.ət/

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(verb)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹuː.ʃi.eɪt/, /ˈkɹuː.si.eɪt/

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Adjective

cruciate (comparative more cruciate, superlative most cruciate)

1. In the form of a cross; cross-shaped; cruciform.
2. Overlapping or crossing.
3. (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

• anterior cruciate ligament
• cruciate anastomosis
• cruciate crural ligament
• cruciate eminence
• cruciate ligament
• cruciately
• cruciate muscle
• cruciate sulcus
• pericruciate
• postcruciate

 

Translations

in the form of a cross — see cruciform

Verb

cruciate (third-person singular simple present cruciates, present participle cruciating, simple past and past participle cruciated)

1. (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

• excruciate

References

• “cruciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• cicurate

Latin

Verb

cruciāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cruciō