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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crucifix \Cru"ci*fix\ (kr?"s?-f?ks), n.; pl. Crucifixes (-?z). [F. crucifix or LL. crucifixum, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross + figere, fixum, to fix. See Cross, and Fix, and cf. Crucify.]
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A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.
The cross, too, by degrees, become the crucifix.
--Milman.And kissing oft her crucifix, Unto the block she drew.
--Warner. The cross or religion of Christ. [R.]
--Jer. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French crucefix (12c., Modern French crucifix), from Latin cruci fixus "(one) fixed to the cross" (see crucify).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wooden cross used for crucifixions, as by the Romans. 2 An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church. 3 (context gymnastics English) The iron cross, a position on the rings where the gymnast holds the rings straight out on either side of the body.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus (Latin for "body").
The crucifix is a principal symbol for many groups of Christians, and one of the most common forms of the Crucifixion in the arts. It is especially important in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, but is also used in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, in Coptic, Armenian and other Oriental Orthodox churches, as well as in Methodist, Lutheran and Anglican churches, but less often in churches of other Protestant denominations, which prefer to use a cross without the figure of Jesus (the corpus). The crucifix emphasizes Jesus' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind. Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Coptic cross.
Western crucifixes usually have a three-dimensional corpus, but in Eastern Orthodoxy Jesus' body is normally painted on the cross, or in low relief. Strictly speaking, to be a crucifix, the cross must be three-dimensional, but this distinction is not always observed. An entire painting of the Crucifixion of Jesus including a landscape background and other figures is not a crucifix either.
Large crucifixes high across the central axis of a church are known by the Old English term rood. By the late Middle Ages these were a near-universal feature of Western churches, but are now very rare. Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, "on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified".
Two different crucifixes, or strictly wooden corpus figures for crucifixes, are attributed to the High Renaissance master Michelangelo, although neither is universally accepted as his. Both are relatively small figures which would have been produced in Michelangelo's youth.
Crucifix (1837–1857) was an undefeated, Classic Race winning, British-bred Thoroughbred racemare. She was also the dam of three sires who had a great influence on the breed.
Crucifix was an American hardcore punk band from Berkeley, California, active from 1980 to 1984. They were among the most popular acts of the San Francisco punk scene of the early 1980s. Crucifix was founded and fronted by Cambodian-born singer Sothira Pheng, whose family had fled the country when the Khmer Rouge seized power.
They were distinct among American underground bands for their strong D-beat musical characteristics and anarchist content. The band's debut 1983 full-length album "Dehumanization" on Corpus Christi Records, an offshoot of Crass Records, is often considered to be their definitive work and a cornerstone of political punk.
A crucifix is a cross with a representation of Jesus Christ, as used in Christian symbolism.
Crucifix may also refer to:
- Crucifix (Núñez Delgado), a 1599 sculpture
- Crucifix (band), an American hardcore punk band from Berkeley, California
- Crucifix (Cimabue, Santa Croce), distemper on wood painting
- Crucifix (horse), a British Thoroughbred race horse
- Iron cross, an extremely difficult gymnastic skill performed on rings (gymnastics)
- Crucifix Hill, a World War II battle that took place on October 8, 1944 in Haarberg
- Crucifix position, a grappling position that involves being perpendicularly behind the opponent
- Chest fly, a strength training exercise; see Fly (exercise)
- Crucifix neck crank, a grappling hold performed on a mounted opponent; see Spinal lock
- The Crucifix, a 1934 film directed by G.B. Samuelson
Crucifix (c. 1265) is a large distemper on wood cross by the Florentine painter and mosaicist Cimabue, one of three large crucifixes attributed to him. It has hung in the Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence since the late thirteenth century. It was commissioned by the Franciscan monks of Santa Croce, and built from a complex arrangement of five main and eight ancillary timber boards. It is one of the first Italian artworks to break from the Byzantine style of the late medieval period, and is renowned for its technical innovations and humanistic iconography. It is in poor condition, in large part due to flood damage in 1966.
The gilding and monumentality of Cimabue's cross links it to the Byzantine tradition. Christ's static pose reflects this tradition while incorporating newer, more naturalistic aspects. The work presents a lifelike and physically imposing depiction of the passion at Calvary. Christ is shown nearly naked: his eyes are closed, his face lifeless and defeated. His body slumps in rigor mortis, contorted by prolonged agony and pain. A graphic portrayal of human suffering, the painting is of seminal importance in art history and has influenced painters from Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Velasquez to Francis Bacon.
Usage examples of "crucifix".
African carving, a battered toy locomotive, a banderilla, an alpenstock carved with the names of formidable climbs, a tiny ivory Buddha and a broken crucifix.
A river so-called, really a brook, the Ancre, runs at the foot of the slope and turns eastward beyond Thiepval, where a ridge called Crucifix Ridge north-east of the village takes its name from a Christ with outstretched arms visible for many miles around.
Go back to your crucifix or your crucible and change your bleeping incantation.
He throws off his cloak, takes a crucifix with one hand, places the other over the head of his daughter, and addresses the devil in such an amusing way that even his wife, always a stupid, dull, crossgrained old woman, had to laugh till the tears came down her cheeks.
The broad violet carpet runners laid across the white marble floor bisected one another directly in front of the painting, forming one gigantic ianthine crucifix, with two smaller ones on either side.
The iconostasis towered up to a crucifix high in the lantern dome, supported by tier upon tier of pillars, angels and cherubs, the transparent icons, painted on glass, glowing with light and impressing the fashionably-dressed guests to a suitably reverent quietness.
She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix.
Lopez shouted somethingagain, in that odd language which Erik had thought was Greek but now suspected was something else entirelyand held the crucifix high.
As the great teocalli had been captured in fair fight, and a large portion of its buildings burnt, Cortez converted a massive stone edifice that had escaped the flames into a church, and erected a gigantic crucifix on the summit of the teocalli, visible from all points of the city.
Thomas lumbered into a stone cell bare of all but a pallet on the floor, a crude table consisting of a pile of rocks topped by a thick, unsanded slab of wood, a crucifix on the wall, a sconce holding a torch, and a prie-dieu in the comer.
He crossed himself briefly with the crucifix, then quite unself-consciously wiped the grease from his beard onto his sleeve, and sat down beside Jocasta.
It was Monsignor Marbot who went in procession to the battlefield of the Marne with crucifix and banner and white-robed acolytes, and in an allocution of singular beauty consecrated those stricken fields with the last rites of the Church.
Nola was beyond answering this question, so as they struggled to shift her five-feet-one, 267-pound frame into the ambulance, she just kissed the yellow Day-Glo crucifix suspended from her shoestring necklace.
Then there emerges a church dignitary bearing a large brightly-burnished crucifix, followed by others bearing bannerettes and other symbols, the names and uses of which are to us a mystery.
This they do by forming a procession with the crucifix, bannerettes, etc.