Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CRU'CIATE – CRU'EN-TATE
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CRU'CIATE, a.
- Tormented. [Little used.]
- In botany, having the form of a cross.
CRU'CIATE, v.t. [L. crucio, to torture, from crux, a cross.]
To torture; to torment; to afflict with extreme pain or distress; but the verb is seldom used. [See Excruciate.]
CRU-CI-A'TION, n.
The act of torturing; torment. [Little used.] – Hall.
CRU'CI-BLE, n. [It. crogiuolo, and crociuolo; Sp. crisol; Port. chrysol or crisol; Fr. creuset; D. kroes, smelt-kroes. It is from crux, a cross, as Lunier supposes, from the figure of the cross, formerly attached to it. But qu.]
- A chimical vessel or melting pot, made of earth, and so tempered and baked, as to endure extreme heat without melting. It is used for melting ores, metals, &c.
- A hollow place at the bottom of a chimical furnace. – Fourcroy.
CRU'CI-FER, n.
In botany, a plant of the cruciferous tribe.
CRU-CIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. crucifer; crux, a cross, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing the cross. – Dict.
CRU'CI-FI-ED, pp.
Put to death on the cross.
CRU'CI-FIER, n. [See Crucify.]
A person who crucifies; one who puts another to death on a cross.
CRU'CI-FIX, n. [L. crucifixus, from crucifigo, to fix to a cross; crux and figo, to fix.]
- A cross on which the body of Christ is fastened in effigy. – Encyc.
- A representation, in painting or statuary, of our Lord fastened to the cross. – Johnson.
- Figuratively, the religion of Christ. [Little used.] – Taylor.
CRU-CI-FIX'ION, n. [See Crucifix.]
The nailing or fastening of a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the act or punishment of putting a criminal to death by nailing him to a cross. – Addison.
CRU'CI-FORM, a. [L. crux, a cross, and forma, form.]
- Cross-shaped.
- In botany, consisting of four equal petals, disposed in the form of a cross. – Martyn.
CRU'CI-FY, v.t. [L. crucifigo; crux, cross, and figo, to fix; Fr. crucifer; It. crocifiggere; Sp. crucificar.]
- To nail to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet, sometimes anciently, by fastening a criminal to a tree, with cords. – Encyc. But they cried, crucify him, crucify him. – Luke xxiii.
- In scriptural language, to subdue; to mortify; to destroy the power or ruling influence of. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. – Gal. v.
- To reject and despise. They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh. – Heb. vi. To be crucified with Christ, is to become dead to the law and to sin, and to have indwelling corruption subdued. – Gal. ii and vi.
- To vex or torment. [Not used.] – Burton.
CRU'CI-FY-ING, ppr.
Putting to death on a cross or gibbet; subduing; destroying the life and power of.
CRUD, n.
Curd. [See Curd, the usual orthography.]
CRUDE, a. [L. crudus; Fr. crud, cru; Sp. and It. crudo; Port. cru; Arm. criz; W. cri; D. raauw; Sax. hreaw; G. roh; Eng. raw; either from the root of cry, from roughness, (W. cri, a cry, and crude;) or from the Ar. أَرَضَ aradha, to eat, to corrode, to rankle, to become raw, L. rodo, rosi. Class Rd, No. 35.]
- Raw; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; in its natural state; undressed; as, crude flesh; crude meat. In this sense, raw is more generally used.
- Not changed from its natural state; not altered or prepared by any artificial process; as, crude salt; crude alum.
- Rough; harsh; unripe; not mellowed by air or other means; as, crude juice.
- Unconcocted; not well digested in the stomach. – Bacon.
- Not brought to perfection; unfinished; immature; as, the crude materials of the earth. – Milton.
- Having indigested notions. – Milton.
- Indigested; not matured; not well formed, arranged, or prepared in the intellect; as, crude notions; a crude plan; a crude theory. – Milton.
CRUDE-LY, adv.
Without due preparation; without form or arrangement; without maturity or digestion.
CRUDE'NESS, n.
- Rawness; unripeness; an undigested or unprepared state; as the crudeness of flesh or plants, or of any body in its natural state.
- A state of being unformed, or indigested; immatureness; as, the crudeness of a theory.
CRU'DI-TY, n. [L. cruditas.]
Rawness; crudeness. Among physicians, undigested substances in the stomach; or unconcocted humors, not well prepared for expulsion; excrements. In the latter senses, it admits of the plural. – Coxe. Encyc.
CRUD'LE, v.t.
To coagulate. But this word is generally written curdle – which see.
CRUD'Y, a.
- Concreted; coagulated. [Not in use. See Curd.] – Spenser.
- Raw; chill. [Not used. See Crude.] Shak.
CRU'EL, a. [Fr. cruel; L. crudelis; It. crudele. See Crude and Rude.]
- Disposed to give pain to others, in body or mind; willing or pleased to torment, vex or afflict; inhuman; destitute of pity, compassion or kindness; fierce; ferocious; savage; barbarous; hard-hearted; applied to persons or their dispositions. They are cruel, and have no mercy. – Jer. vi.
- Inhuman; barbarous; savage; causing pain, grief or distress, exerted in tormenting, vexing or afflicting. Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel. – Gen. xlix. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. – Prov. xii. Others had trials of cruel mockings. – Heb. xi.
CRU'EL-LY, adv.
- In a cruel manner; with cruelty; inhumanly; barbarously. Because he cruelly oppressed, he shall die in his iniquity. – Ezek xviii.
- Painfully; with severe pain, or torture; as, an instrument may cut the flesh most cruelly.
CRU'EL-NESS, n.
Inhumanity; cruelty. – Spenser.
CRU'EL-TY, n. [L. crudelitas; Fr. cruauté.]
- Inhumanity; a savage or barbarous disposition or temper, which is gratified in giving unnecessary pain or distress to others; barbarity; applied to persons; as, the cruelty of savages; the cruelty and envy of the people. – Shak.
- Barbarous deed; any act of a human being which inflicts unnecessary pain; any act intended to torment, vex or afflict, or which actually torments or afflicts, without necessity; wrong; injustice; oppression. With force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. – Ezek. xxxiv.
CRU'EN-TATE, a. [L. cruentatus.]
Smeared with blood. [Little used.] – Glanville.