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crucify(dictionary)

crucify (iou)



crucify verb trans. ME.
[Old & mod. French crucifier from Proto-Romance alt. of ecclesiastical Latin crucifigere, from Latin cruci figere fix to a cross: see CRUX, FIX verb.]
Put to death by nailing or otherwise fastening to a cross (an ancient mode of capital punishment, considered by the Greeks and Romans to be especially ignominious). ME.
Mortify, destroy the power of, (passions, sins, the flesh, etc.). ME.
Cause extreme mental or (now less commonly) physical pain to; torment; persecute. E17.
H. Robbins Somebody has to be held up before the stockholders and crucified so that they can say: 'See, it was all his fault. He was to blame!' Listener He would be severely beaten up, then subjected to some crucifying punishment and, if that did not teach him, very probably executed.
crucifier noun ME.