cruciate

comparative more cruciate · superlative most cruciate

1. In the form of a cross.

   Near-synonym: X-shaped (not always differentiable)

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   Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.

   2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN

   Synonyms: cruciform, cross-shaped, X-shaped · Antonyms: noncruciform

2. Overlapping or crossing.
3. obsoleteTormented.

   Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.

   1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC

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   In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.

   1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches

present singular third person cruciates · participle present cruciating · participle past cruciated · past cruciated

1. obsoleteTo torture; to torment.

   a. 1680, Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.

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   They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.

   1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches