Word Meanings - CRUCIFIXION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.
Additional info about word: CRUCIFIXION
1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3. Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial. Do ye prove What crucifixions are in love Herrick.
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- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - NAILLESS
Without nails; having no nails. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - HANGNAIL
A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - TENAILLON
A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.