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CRUCIFIX

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gymnastic exercise performed on the rings when the gymnast supports himself with both arms extended horizontally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("crucifix" is a kind of...):

gymnastic exercise ((gymnastics) an exercise designed to develop and display strength and agility and balance (usually performed with or on some gymnastic apparatus))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Representation of the cross on which Jesus died

Synonyms:

crucifix; rood; rood-tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crucifix" is a kind of...):

Cross (a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry)

Derivation:

crucify (kill by nailing onto a cross)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite—whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Therefore I shall fix some things she like not—garlic and a crucifix—and so seal up the door of the tomb.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I returned my thanks, by the interpreter, for so unusual a favour; and some troops being at that time on their march to Nangasac, the commanding officer had orders to convey me safe thither, with particular instructions about the business of the crucifix.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained between the lifted crucifix and the sacred closing of her means of entry.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Professor stood up and, after laying his golden crucifix on the table, held out his hand on either side.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed—I imagine that my rest is thus freer from dreams; and there it shall remain.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)