(n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.
(n.) The cross or religion of Christ.
Example Sentences:
(1) She picked up a small crucifix with a deer at the foot, which she took with her to the meeting with the CPS lawyer Alison Levitt QC in 2012.
(2) Vatican officials appear to have been flummoxed after Pope Francis was presented with a communist crucifix depicting Jesus nailed to a hammer and sickle by Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.
(3) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(4) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(5) As the patriarch led a procession around the cathedral, priests carried a crucifix and an icon that had been damaged in attacks elsewhere in Russia this spring.
(6) Likewise, a fifth thought that an employer should be able to insist a Sikh man take off his turban at work, and 15% believed that a Christian woman should take off her crucifix.
(7) Yet it would allow crucifixes, which, according to Marois, symbolise traditional Quebec culture.
(8) Her friends knew it was sung from the crucifix, but her mum didn't get it.
(9) Two others were employees bent not only on wearing but displaying crucifixes, one of whom rejected an equally paid alternative post in which one could freely have one's cross to bear.
(10) But with storm clouds coming in over the enormous crucifix on Mount Cristo Rey, overlooking Juarez, we turn back.
(11) But I had a quick look at the first couple of frames and from what I could see there was a bunch of naked nuns and a bloody massive crucifix…" "I'll call you straight back," I said, hastily hung up the phone and dialled another number.
(12) The latest person to express outrage at this industry's flagrant disregard for common decency is the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who writes in the foreword to his first Lent book that the crucifix has become a fashion statement, devoid of religious meaning.
(13) At participating outlets, EVERYTHING is hot cross this Easter.” The £17 special is a rib-eye seared with a cross, cruciate onion rings and a crucifix baked Alaska containing an icy little vanilla Jesus.
(14) In another home nearby a crucifix hung on an apparently bullet-pocked wall.
(15) Mosse followed her debut with a non-fiction book about pregnancy, Becoming a Mother , and a second novel Crucifix Lane .
(16) Madonna introduced the pair, who were dressed in tunics with crucifixes emblazoned on the front.
(17) "I'm fine," he said before entering a courtroom decorated with a massive glass chandelier and large crucifix.
(18) A big shiny crucifix sticker slapped over the fissures where, oh, I dunno, empathy should be apparently suffices if you love Jesus enough.
(19) Chaplin, 57, a geriatrics nurse from Exeter, was moved to an administrative job after she refused to take off a crucifix around her neck.
(20) 01:25 During the second episode, we've covered Christianity's 10th-century adoption of the crucifix as a logo – and the influence of the Crusades on western culture – and now we've arrived at the dawn of the gothic era.
Crucify
Definition:
(v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
(v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
(v. t.) To vex or torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
(2) 'No app for that': tech-rich San Francisco's intractable homelessness Read more Greg Gopman, a co-founder of the startup AngelHack, began his mission to solve homelessness in San Francisco in 2013, after an online rant about the down-and-out saw him, in his own words, “crucified” on social media.
(3) And then I'll quote myself: 'The truth is always crucified.'
(4) Fothergill says many areas have still not recovered from the "crucifying blow" of large-scale job losses, with hidden unemployment still dragging down many communities – and masking the real scale of social and economic disparities.
(5) It sounded like a werewolf exorcising a roomful of crucified sopranos.)
(6) Hear the gospel of our saviour, Caitlin Moran, as she defends big knickers and pubic bushes in all their natural, un-crucified glory.
(7) I am advised that did not happen and for us to be crucified in the way that we have is absolutely wrong, including by Miliband and the Labour leadership."
(8) Civil servants were also due to meet Saudi representatives at the major arms expo in London’s Docklands last month, just as the regime upheld a ruling that al-Nimr was to be executed and his body crucified and left in public view for three days.
(9) Tim Buckley of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said to stop work at this stage “just crucifies the project, it all goes out the window”.
(10) We mostly stand by while people make profits in ways that hurt the poor, but when they make a profit trying to help them, they're crucified.
(11) That was until July 1977, when Mary Whitehouse, self-appointed guardian of national morals, won a blasphemy libel case against Gay News for publishing a poem about a Roman centurion's homoerotic leanings towards the crucified Christ.
(12) She describes how her nephew was crucified to death and a video of his crucifixion was put on the internet.
(13) In the early 1930s the politicians crucified the people on a cross of gold; as they obsessed about the facility for converting cash into bullion, they kept a rigid grip on the public purse strings.
(14) 8.10pm: For their live performance, JLS have been crucified in the sky.
(15) "I do not abandon the cross, but remain in a new way near to the crucified Lord," he said, adding in separate remarks in English: "I will continue to accompany the church with my prayers and I ask each of you to pray for me and for the new pope."
(16) When the badminton or swimming association hasn’t got its money, it’s Kwesi Nyantatkyi … It’s ridiculous … Kwesi Nyantakyi must be crucified by all means.” • Most resilient: Zimbabwe FA head Cuthbert Dube - denying wrongdoing and demanding a £650,000 payout after officials deposed him and his board.
(17) I have seen about five people crucified in the city.
(18) This controversy, Steve Scalise being crucified, is unfortunate,” says Knight.
(19) The pope looked bemused on Wednesday night when Morales handed him one of the more unusual gifts he has received: a sculpted wooden hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism – with a figure of a crucified Christ resting on the hammer.
(20) She said MPs heard from another woman who had come directly from Syria and spoke of Christians being killed and tortured, of children being beheaded in front of their parents and of mothers who had seen their own children crucified.