Forms: see prec. [f. prec.] trans. To stab or kill with a creese. Hence Creesing ppl. a. and vbl. sb.
1602–5. E. Scot, Disc. Java, in Purchas, Pilgrims (1625), I. 175. This Boyhoy we tortured not, because of his confession, but crysed him.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. xlvi. 158. One [Malay] of them runs to the King, and crest him to the Heart.
1857. S. Osborn, Quedah, vi. 79. They … constantly saw their countrymen creesed before their eyes.
1883. G. M. Fenn, Middy & Ensign, xxix. 181. They having been krissed and their bodies thrown into the river.
