Definition of Crucifixes

1. Noun. (plural of crucifix) ¹

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Definition of Crucifixes

1. crucifix [n] - See also: crucifix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crucifixes

crucibles
crucifer
cruciferae
cruciferous
cruciferous plant
cruciferous vegetable
crucifers
crucifiction
crucifictions
crucified
crucifier
crucifiers
crucifies
crucifix
crucifix fish
crucifixes (current term)
crucifixion
crucifixionlike
crucifixions
crucifixlike
cruciform
cruciform eminence
cruciform ligament of atlas
cruciform loops
cruciform structure
cruciforms
crucify

Literary usage of Crucifixes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"CHAPTER XI crucifixes : THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE CROSS IN EARLY ... The extreme rarity of examples of crucifixes of any kind of an earlier date than the ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"The charge of setting up crucifixes is repeated in numerous works of those times: and it is important, as proving the existence of crosses, ..."

3. History of Painting by Alfred Woltmann, Karl Woermann, Sidney Colvin (1880)
"Among panel-pictures in which Byzantine influence appears, though in a far less pleasurable shape, we may notice a number of large crucifixes cut out and ..."

4. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... and quoted the leiter in which she had offered !o take on herself ihe whole blame. ment, adorned by crucifixes and death's ..."

5. A Summer in Brittany by Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Frances Milton Trollope (1840)
"Ornamented crucifixes—Breton Saints—Origin of them — Legend —Village of Guenroc—French Taste — View of the Valley of the Ranee — Walk to Caulnes — Fair ..."

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