cruciate

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.
   • 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN‎:

     Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.

2. Overlapping or crossing.
3. (obsolete) Tormented.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →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.

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• cicurate

Verb

cruciāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cruciō