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Definition: Crucifix |
CrucifixNoun1. Representation of the cross on which Jesus died. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crucifix" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To see a crucifix in a dream, is a warning of distress approaching, which will involve others beside yourself. To kiss one, foretells that trouble will be accepted by you with resignation. For a young woman to possess one, foretells she will observe modesty and kindness in her deportment, and thus win the love of others and better her fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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A crucifix amidst the cornfields
near Mureck in rural Styria, AustriaThe crucifix is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, being a cross with an attached figure of Jesus Christ (the corpus). It is primarily used in Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican circles, and emphasizes Christ's sacrifice. Other Protestant denominations prefer to depict the cross without the corpus, to emphasize the resurrection.
A crucifix is often worn on a necklace as an item of jewelry, or is attached to a rosary.
See also:
See Crucifix (band) For information about the US punk band of that name.
- Christian cross
- crucifixion
- Christian symbolism
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Crucifix were a hardcore punk band in the 1980s from San Francisco, California.They released an album (Dehumanization) on Corpus Christi Records (an offshoot of Crass Records) which showcased their extremely fast and overdriven sound, reminiscent of early Discharge.
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Synonyms: CrucifixSynonyms: rood (n), rood-tree (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rite | Relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, host, cross, rood, crucifix, pax, pyx, agnus Dei, censer, thurible, patera; eileton, Holy Grail; prayer machine, prayer wheel; Sangraal, urceus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crucifix |
| English words defined with "crucifix": Crucifixes ♦ Holy rood. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crucifix": Black Rood of Scotland ♦ GHOUL ♦ Hubert ♦ Jean de la Vigne ♦ Rood-loft. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crucifix" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (crucifix), French (crucifix, rood), Romanian (cross, crucifix, rood). |
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Screenplays | Oh for goodness sakes, get down off that crucifix, someone needs the wood (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; writing credit: Stephan Elliott.) And there's a crucifix in it. (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber) Look, if it's about that time I got drunk and masturbated with a crucifix, it was my first keg party, alright (Scary Movie; writing credit: Shawn Wayans; Marlon Wayans) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Crucifix (1934) | |
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 | Crucifix. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Where two Catholic sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two Catholic sisters were praying before this crucifix in a convent in Algiers when German dive-bombers almost demolished the building, killing them and thirteen other nuns. The fifteen sist. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Plaster models of the Christ figure for the Catholic Council Building. Altar with candles and crucifix I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Crucifix" by Csongor Varga Commentary: "Crucifix (somewhere in Pecs, Hungary)." | "Crucifix" by William J. Ray Commentary: "Just a spur of the moment shot laid out on a lovely Turkish rug." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But above the head of the judge was a crucifix, a thing which did not appear in court rooms at the time of his sentence |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He knelt in the silent gloom and raised his eyes to the white crucifix suspended above him. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
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| "Crucifix" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.33% of the time. "Crucifix" is used about 150 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.33% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 150 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "crucifix". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Crocetta | Female | Italian | A crucifix |
| Crocifissa | Female | Italian | A crucifix |
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Expression using "crucifix": crucifix fish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crucifix": crucifix-shape. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crucifix"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kryqëzatë (crusade). (various references) | |
Arabic | صليب (cross, mark), المصلوب المسيح مصلوبا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разпятие (calvary, rood). (various references) | |
Chinese | 耶稣受难像. (various references) | |
Czech | krucifix (holy rood, rood), kříž (cross, small of the back). (various references) | |
Danish | krucifiks. (various references) | |
Dutch | kruisbeeld, crucifix. (various references) | |
Esperanto | krucifikso. (various references) | |
Farsi | صلیب عیسی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ristiinnaulitun kuva. (various references) | |
French | crucifix. (various references) | |
German | kruzifix (rood), kreuz (back, clubs, cross, dagger, interchange, intersection, obelisk, sharp, small of the back). (various references) | |
Greek | σταυρόσ (cross, rood, starfish), σταυρός (cross, rood), σταυρωμένοσ (crucified). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צלב עם דמות ישו, צלב (cross). (various references) | |
Hungarian | feszület (cross, rood). (various references) | |
Italian | crocifisso (rood). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 十字架像 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じゅうじかぞう. (various references) | |
Manx | crogh (cross, gibbet, saffron). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ucifixcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crucifixo (cross, rood). (various references) | |
Romanian | crucifix (cross, rood). (various references) | |
Russian | распятие (cross, crucifixion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krst sa razapetim isusem. (various references) | |
Spanish | crucifijo (rood). (various references) | |
Swedish | krucifix (rood). (various references) | |
Turkish | hazreti isa figürlü haç, haç (cross, crucial, rood). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розп'яття (calvary, cross, rood). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hình thập ác. (various references) | |
Welsh | crwys (cross). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cruci fixus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crucifix": crucifixes, crucifixion, crucifixions. (additional references) | |
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"Crucifix" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carciofi, crocifix, crucifi, crucifu, crusifix. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crucifix" (pronounced kruw"sufi'ks) |
| 3 | -i' k s | broomsticks, candlesticks, chopsticks, lipsticks, lunatics, picnics, politics, toothpicks, upticks, yardsticks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-f-i-i-r-u-x" | |
-4 letters: crux, cuif, curf, fuci, uric. | |
-5 letters: cur, fir, fix, fur, rif. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-f-i-i-r-u-x" | |
+2 letters: crucifixes. | |
+3 letters: crucifixion. | |
+4 letters: crucifixions. | |
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