decussatively

English

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Etymology

From decussative +‎ -ly.

Adverb

decussatively (not comparable)

(obsolete) Crosswise; in the form of an X.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
  And if it were clearly made out what is remarkably delivered from the Traditions of the Rabbins, that as the Oyle was powred coronally or circularly upon the head of Kings, so the High-Priest was anointed decussatively or in the form of a X […]
- 1881, Mind and Matter, volume 3, number 44, page n3:
  McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Theological Literature Says: " […] The fathers, with their usual luxuriant imagination discover types of this kind of cross in Jacob's blessing of Joseph’s sons: in the annointing of priests ‘decussatively’; for the Rabbis say that priests were distinctively thus anointed ; and in the crossing of the hands over the head of the goat […] ."
- 1898, William Wood Seymour, The Cross in tradition, history, and art, page 20:
  Sir Thomas Browne thinks the oil was poured in a circle on the heads of Jewish kings, but decussatively on the heads of priests.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “decussatively”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)