Definition of "cruciate"

cruciate

adjective
comparative more cruciate, superlative most cruciate
1. In the form of a cross; cross-shaped; cruciform.
2. Overlapping or crossing.
3. (obsolete) Tormented.
  Quotations
  Immediately I was so cruciate, that I desired— death to take me.
  1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published
  In this life are they cruciate with a troublous and doubtfull conscience.
  1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches
verb
third-person singular simple present cruciates, present participle cruciating, simple past and past participle cruciated
1. (obsolete) To torture; to torment.
  Quotations
  They vexed, tormented, and cruciated the weake consciences of men.
  1550, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches
  The thus miserably cruciated spirit must needs quit its unfit habitation.
  a. 1680, Joseph Glanvill, on the Preexistence of Souls