cruciate
English
Adjective
cruciate
- In the form of a cross; cruciform.
- Overlapping or crossing.
- (obsolete) tormented.
- John Bale’s 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.
- John Bale’s The Image of Both Churches.
Derived terms
- cruciate anastomosis
- cruciate crural ligament
- cruciate eminence
- cruciate ligament
- cruciately
- cruciate muscle
- cruciate sulcus
Verb
cruciate (third-person singular simple present cruciates, present participle cruciating, simple past and past participle cruciated)
Related terms
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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