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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



... by the mad crowd around him, balancing his decision between justice, the prisoner's release, and injustice, the call to crucify him, he knows not what to do. In an agony of thought, which pen cannot describe or human words portray, he delays his ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... these nineteen centuries anew Comes the hoarse-throated, brutalized refrain, "Give us Barabbas, crucify the Jew!" Once more a man must bear a nation's stain,— And that in France, the chivalrous, whose lore Made her the flower of knightly age gone by. Now she lies hideous with a leprous sore No skill can cure—no ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson

... Al-Raydaniyah.[FN477] Then the Wazir gave order to take Badr al-Din Hasan out of the chest and sent for a carpenter and said to him, "Make me a cross of wood [FN478] for this fellow!" Cried Badr al-Din Hasan "And what wilt thou do with it?"; and the Wazir replied, "I mean to crucify thee thereon, and nail thee thereto and parade thee all about the city." "And why wilt thou use me after this fashion?" "Because of thy villanous cookery of conserved pomegranate-grains; how durst thou dress it and sell it lacking pepper?" "And for that it lacked pepper wilt thou do all this ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... wife, a lovely house bewitchingly furnished, a lovely carriage, and a coachman whose style and dignity are simply awe-inspiring, nothing less; and I'm making more money than necessary, by considerable, and therefore why crucify myself nightly on the platform! The subscriber will have to be excused, for the present ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... formalist, selfish, an opposer of goodness, an oppressor, whatever evil you have done, in that degree and so far you participate in the evil to which the Just One fell a victim—you are one of that mighty rabble which cry, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him!" for your sin He died; His blood lies at ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson


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