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Definition of Crucifixion

1. Noun. The act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross.

2. Noun. The death of Jesus by crucifixion.

3. Noun. The infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering.

Definition of Crucifixion

1. 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.

Definition of Crucifixion

1. Noun. An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead. ¹

2. Noun. (''absolute use, often capitalized: The '''Crucifixion''''') The death on the Cross of Christ. ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crucifixion

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Crucifixion

crucifer cruciferae cruciferous cruciferous plant cruciferous vegetable crucifers crucifiction crucifictions crucified crucifier

crucifiers crucifies crucifix crucifix fish crucifixes crucifixion (current term) crucifixionlike crucifixions crucifixlike cruciform

cruciform eminence cruciform ligament of atlas cruciform loops cruciform structure cruciforms crucify crucifying

Literary usage of Crucifixion

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

1. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1894)
"crucifixion [of Christ], The. Of the great number of compositions which treat of this ... A picture of the crucifixion, Expulsion, and Last Judgment, ..."

2. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1888)
"That be was acquainted with the proco* of crucifixion by the Romans may be inferred from his minute description of a cross (Dial e. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"•which the subject is treated:—Christ Ascending the Cross; Our Lord being Nailed to the Cross; The Elevation of the Cross; The crucifixion ; Various Classes ..."

4. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"THE strictly devotional crucifixion, representing' the scene, not in the hands of the Jew and ... This was called, not the crucifixion, but the Adoration of ..."

5. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"HAVING thus described the figures and groups which form the usual component parts of the crucifixion, it will be as well to take a rapid glance at a few of ..."

6. The Life of Faith by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1862)
"CHAPTER TWELFTH ON THE RELATION OP FAITH TO INWARD crucifixion Of the crucifixion ... Statements illustrative of inward crucifixion. Ex tract from Tauler. ..."

7. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"THE crucifixion The crucifixion scene on the doors of S. Sabina (Fig. 108) demands a special consideration, in order that we may institute a comparison with ..."

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