Crucial :: Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision..

Crucial :: Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test..

Crucian Carp :: Crucian carp () A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp..

Cruciate :: Cruciate (a.) Tormented.

Cruciate :: Cruciate (a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.

Cruciate :: Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

Cruciation :: Cruciation (n.) The act of torturing; torture; torment.

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc..

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal..

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction..

Crucifer :: Crucifer (n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae.

Cruciferous :: Cruciferous (a.) Bearing a cross.

Cruciferous :: Cruciferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc..

Crucified :: Crucified (imp. & p. p.) of Crucif.

Crucifier :: Crucifier (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.

Crucifix :: Crucifix (n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions..

Crucifix :: Crucifix (n.) The cross or religion of Christ.

Crucifixes :: Crucifixes (pl. ) of Crucifi.

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) 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..

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.

Cruciform :: Cruciform (a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.

Crucify :: Crucify (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

Crucify :: Crucify (v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.

Crucify :: Crucify (v. t.) To vex or torment.

Crucifying :: Crucifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crucif.

Crucigerous :: Crucigerous (a.) Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.

Discruciate :: Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.

Discruciated :: Discruciated (imp. & p. p.) of Discruciat.

Discruciating :: Discruciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discruciat.

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