CRUCIFIXION • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Crucifixion

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/krˌusɪfˈɪkʃən/ Listen

Crucifixion

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.

The death of Jesus by crucifixion.

The infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering. Synonym: excruciation.

See more definitions of Crucifixion...

See images of 'Crucifixion'

Etymology of 'Crucifixion'

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Crucifixion" Quotes from Famous Books

... the parents take pity, and on the third day the mother comes and opens her side and lets the blood flow on the dead young ones, and they become alive again. Thus God cast off mankind after the Fall, and delivered them over to death; but he took pity on us, as a mother, for by the Crucifixion He awoke us with His blood ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... intimidated his successor, an excellent man and good antiquary, from affording us some curious information on fairy superstition. He tells us that these capricious elves are chiefly dangerous on a Friday, when, as the day of the Crucifixion, evil spirits have most power, and mentions their displeasure at any one who assumes their accustomed livery of green, a colour fatal to several families in Scotland, to the whole race of the gallant Grahames ...

— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott

... more irksome with the ages. Caiaphas, Annas, and the members of the council that condemned Christ lay on the ground transfixed with stakes, and over their bodies passed the slow moving train of the hypocrites. The next bridge lay in ruins as a result of the earthquake at the Crucifixion, and Vergil experienced the utmost difficulty in conveying Dante up the crags to a point where he could look down into the dark dungeon of thieves, where the naked throng were entwined with serpents and at their bite changed from man ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... Latin sentences there are five stanzas of an Anglo-Saxon poem of singular beauty. It is the story of the crucifixion told in touching words by the cross itself, which narrates its own sad tale from the time when it was a growing tree by the woodside, until at length, after the body of the ...

— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield

... are four angels, one of which carries a basket of flowers. In the side panels are St. Matthew, St. John Baptist, St. John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene. Above in the central compartment of the triptych, is the Crucifixion and the two rounds on ...

— Fra Angelico • J. B. Supino

More quotes...