cruciation

English

Etymology

Latin cruciatio.

Noun

cruciation (usually uncountable, plural cruciations)

1. (obsolete) torture; torment
   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, The Soul's Farewell to Earth:

     a God that delights more in the prosperity of his saints than in the cruciation and howling of his enemies

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cruciation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cicuration