pa. pple. Obs. [CROSS- 2; after L. crucifixus.] Fixed on a cross, crucified.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Mysterie of Myst., The Sonne, 29. Tempted, tormented, mockt, condemn’d, Crosse-fixed, dead, buried.
1849. J. A. Carlyle, Dante’s Inferno, XXIII. 280. To my eyes came one [Caiaphas] cross-fixed [crocifisso] in the ground with three stakes.
