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Nonconformist church raised cross - what's the point?
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crux
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The modern constellation Crux is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crux \Crux\ (kr[u^]ks), n.; pl. E. Cruxes (-[e^]z), L. Cruces (kr[udd]"s[=e]z). [L., cross, torture, trouble.] Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain. --Dr. Sheridan. The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. --Strauss. [1913 Webster] ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, "cross," from Latin crux "cross" (see cross (n.)). Figurative use for "a central difficulty," is older, from 1718; perhaps from Latin crux interpretum "a point in a text that is impossible to interpret," in which the literal sense is something like ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The basic, central, or essential point or feature. 2 The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point. 3 A puzzle or difficulty. 4 The hardest point of a climb. 5 (context heraldiccharge English) A cross on a coat of arms.
Usage examples of crux.
He wants a visible image to fix his thought, a scarabee or a crux ansata, or the modern symbols which are to our own time what these were to the ancient Egyptians.
Master Sean had prowled round the room with his eyes half closed, his golden crux ansata in his right hand, probing everywhere.
Fastened to the wall above it was an ancient ankh or crux ansata, the Egyptian cross with looped top, symbolizing procreation and life.
Their key symbol was the looped cross of ancient Egypt, the crux ansata -- the sign of life.
On the other the winged serpent, the uraeus, bearing the looped cross, the crux ansata, the symbol of life.
Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.
Hence the Ank Cross or Crux Ansata of Egypt, scepter of the Lord of the Dead that never die.
The Crux Ansata was the particular emblem of Osiris, and his sceptre ended with that figure.
Crux Ansata, a Tau cross with a circle over it, means life-giving, 290-u.
I wore a small gold badge under my lapela badge in the shape of the crux ansata, the looped Egyptian cross of natural, holy life.
The sedan had chased him all the way from Las Cruces to the Caballo foothills.
He also headed in the general direction of Las Cruces, then turned south on I-10 toward El Paso.
The town of Las Cruces had traffic, but not all that much at the dinner hour.
They rented the carsall four groupsin Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and probably drove independently to their objectives.