Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who crucifies; one who puts another to death on a cross.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.
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- noun One who
crucifies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a result, he asked me, his Roman Catholic friend, to serve as crucifer some misread the title as crucifier, an admittedly more dramatic role I may have considered had it been offered.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael O'Loughlin 2011
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Pharaoh (chaps. xx.) threatens to crucify his magicians on palm-trees, and is held to be the first crucifier.
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‘Wretched man, trampler upon God’s covenants, crucifier of your Lord afresh.
Lay Morals 2005
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Suppose there were a Christian Emperor who could not even go to the tomb of the crucified without pausing to congratulate the last and living crucifier.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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Suppose there were a Christian Emperor who could not even go to the tomb of the Crucified, without pausing to congratulate the last and living crucifier.
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When that bilious critic and merciless crucifier of human foibles,
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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'Wretched man, trampler upon God's covenants, crucifier of your Lord afresh.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Pharaoh (chaps. xx.) threatens to crucify his magicians on palm-trees, and is held to be the first crucifier.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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God reckons with him as with a crucifier of the Lord
The Ten Commandments 1692
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To the cashmere sweater who falls from the closet shelf onto the back of your clothes, the tips of all those dry cleaner hangers you haven't thrown away are concertina wire, and when you take it out, you are not, as you may think, its savior, but its crucifier.
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