cruciate

English

Etymology

From Latin cruciatus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkruːʃiət/

Adjective

cruciate

In the form of a cross; cross-shaped; cruciform.
Overlapping or crossing.
(obsolete) Tormented.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, 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

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

(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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

cicurate

Latin

Verb

cruciāte

second-person plural present active imperative of cruciō

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