crucify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crucify	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for crucify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crucify v kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified" treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Synonym(s): torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" Synonym(s): mortify, subdue, crucify criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" Synonym(s): savage, blast, pillory, crucify
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crucify \Cru"cify\ (-f?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crucified} (-f?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crucifying}.] [F. crucifier, fr. (assumed) LL. crucificare, for crucifigere, fr, L. crux, crucis, cross + figere to fix, the ending -figere being changed to -ficare, F. -fier (in compounds), as if fr. L. facere to do, make. See {Cross}, and {Fix}, and cf. {Crucifix}.] 1. To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify* him, cricify him. --Luke xxiii. 21. 2. To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. --Gal. v. 24. 3. To vex or torment. --Beau. & FL.