Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Passive oozing of blood-tinged fluid from the cut surface of raw flesh.
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- noun the
bleeding on thecorpse of, especially amurder victim , which was superstitiously believed to occurspontaneously in the presence of themurderer
Etymologies
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From Latin cruentatio ("bleeding")
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Examples
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Similarly hath not many a murdered carcase at the coroner's inquest suffered a fresh haelig; morrhage or cruentation at the presence of the assassin?
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Similarly hath not many a murdered carcase at the coroner's inquest suffered a fresh haemorrhage or cruentation at the presence of the assassin?
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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