crucify Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • crucify: I. Lit.: in crucem agere, cruce afficere, cruci suffigere, Cic.: in cruce suffigere, Hirt.; also in crucem, Just.: cruci affigere, Tac. (N.B. crucifīgo, as single word, belongs to later and Christian writers.) II. Fig.: in theol. sense, to c. the flesh, *corporis libidines omni duritia coercere et quasi enecare [cruci suffigere].