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Crucify   /krˈusəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Crucify

verb
(past & past part. crucified; pres. part. crucifying)
1.
Kill by nailing onto a cross.
2.
Treat cruelly.  Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment.
3.
Hold within limits and control.  Synonyms: mortify, subdue.  "Mortify the flesh"
4.
Criticize harshly or violently.  Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage.  "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"






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"Crucify" Quotes from Famous Books



... of nature's faculties, before the understanding is developed, they come away early and grow rapidly, and obtain a firm footing before the saving truth, the seed of the kingdom, has burst the kernel and broken through the ground. Crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts; begin that work early, and persevere in that work to ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot

... could think of nothing else for a while. For we did not hide them from others. We welcomed Judas of Galilee, and Barchocheba, and many another who rose up in our midst, claiming to be sent of God. But He, who claimed to be The Sent One,—we crucified Him. We did not crucify them. We hid our faces from Him, and from Him alone. And then I heard more words, for the Bishop kept reading on. 'We all like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way'—ah, was that not true of the dispersed of ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt

... I to be pitied, you say? Yes! there's nothing to pity me for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied! Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me! And then I will go of myself to be crucified, for it's not merry-making I seek but tears and tribulation!... Do you suppose, you that sell, that this pint of yours has been ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... face, you Jews, and pierce my side, Buffet and scoff, scourge and crucify me, For I have sinned, and sinned, and only he Who could do no iniquity hath died, But by my death cannot be satisfied My sins, which pass the Jews' impiety: They killed once an inglorious man, but I Crucify him daily, being now glorified. O let me then his strange love ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... burned, crucified, and then, when they were well out of the way, crowned and held up to humanity as the saviors of the race. We will have none of them when authority, faith, truth, courage, show us our distorted images in the mirror of their lives. Crucify him, crucify him! has always been the cry when such a one asserts his moral kingship, or his sonship to God, or his audacious intention to live his own life; and in less tragic fashion, but none the less along the ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier


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