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Crucify

verb

(past & past part. crucified; pres. part. crucifying)

Kill by nailing onto a cross.

Treat cruelly. Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment.

Hold within limits and control. Synonyms: mortify, subdue. "Mortify the flesh"

Criticize harshly or violently. Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage. "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

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"Crucify" Quotes from Famous Books

... managed to get some of the shrug into his voice. "Can be, at that," he said. "I hope you're not making a mistake, Mick; if you are, his lawyer's going to crucify you. What are you ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... the Master,—if He lead to Calvary? Or are we ready to run the awful risk of hearing Christ's "Depart!" rather than face men's "Crucify"? Now, while it is called to-day, let us settle ...

— For the Master's Sake - A Story of the Days of Queen Mary • Emily Sarah Holt

... the dry account of his abstract thought, of his progress to broader standpoints, to that great discovery—"All evils come from not following Right Reason and the Law of Nature." And therewith a virulent denunciation of Judaism and its Rabbis: "They would crucify Jesus even now if He appeared again." And, garnering the wisdom of his life-experience, he bade every man love his neighbor, not because God bids him, but by virtue of being a man. What Judaism, what Christianity contains of truth belongs not to revealed, but to natural religion. Love is older ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... too much, I see, And heaven not enough for me; I should have had the joy Without the fear to justify, — The palm without the Calvary; So, Saviour, crucify. ...

— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson

... the least we can do to lay down ours for Him? If He bore the cross and died on it for me, ought I not be willing to take it up for Him? Oh have we not reason to think well of Him? Do you think it is right and noble to lift up your voice against such, a Savior? Do you think it just to cry "Crucify Him! crucify Him!" Oh, may God help all of us to glorify the Father, by thinking well of His only-begotten Son. ...

— Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for Study • Compiled by Grenville Kleiser

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