cruxn.

Brit.

/krʌks/, U.S.

/krəks/

Etymology: Latin: see cross n.

1. = cross n., in heraldic and other expressions. crux ansata = tau n. 1b (see quot. 1930).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > ankh

tau1785

crux ansata1841

ankh1861

ansata1868

1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 341 The sign of life (or crux ansata) was compelled to submit to the unintelligible name of ‘Key of the Nile’.

1896 T. Wilson Swastika 766 The Crux Ansata..according to Egyptian mythology, was Ankh, the emblem of Ka, the spiritual double of man.

1930 E. A. T. W. Budge Amulets & Superstit. xviii. 340 It is wrong, too, to call the sign ☥, crux ansata, the ‘handled cross’, for whatever object the hieroglyph may represent, it was certainly not a cross or anything like it.

2. Astronomy. A distinctive constellation of the southern hemisphere, situated in the Milky Way between Centaurus and Musca and resembling a cross; = Southern Cross n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Crux Australis

crosier1555

cross1555

Southern Cross1681

crux1837

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198 Crux, a southern constellation formed out of Halley's observations by Augustine Royer in his maps published in 1679.

1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xi. 253 There is in the constellation Crux, a pear-shaped vacuity of considerable size.

3. figurative.

a. A difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; as ‘a textual crux’. Cf. crucify v. 2c (Used by Sheridan and Swift with the sense ‘conundrum, riddle’.)[Cf. German kreuz, Grimm, 2178 g, (quoted from Herder 1778, and Niebuhr); according to Hildebrand taken from the scholastic Latin crux interpretum, etc.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun]

riddleOE

purposec1350

problema1382

propositiona1382

conclusion1393

divinailc1430

opposal?a1439

riddling?c1475

wordc1480

why1532

dark, hard sentence1535

enigma1539

remblere1599

puzzlement1646

gripha1652

puzzler1651

riddlemy riddlemy1652

puzzle1655

crux1718

teaser1759

puzzleation1767

conundrum1790

poser1793

riddle-me-ree1805

stumper1807

tickler1825

sticker1849

brain-teaser1850

grueller1856

question mark1870

brain-twister1878

skull-buster1926

mind-bender1968

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux

knotc1000

the milk in the coconut1840

crux1852

1718 T. Sheridan Let. in J. Swift Wks. (1814) XV. 56 Dear dean, since in cruxes and puns you and I deal, Pray, Why is a woman a sieve and a riddle?

1718 J. Swift To Sheridan 61 As for your new rebus, or riddle, or crux, I will either explain, or repay it in trucks.

1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 69 (note) Ideas have been the crux philosophorum, since Aristotle sent them packing to the present day.

1859 F. D. Maurice What is Revelation 70 To look upon them as mere cruxes and trivialities which may be left to critics.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 401 The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the age of Plato.

1888 Dowden in 19th Cent. XLIII. 336 The consideration of a textual crux in itself sharpens the wits.

b. The chief problem; the central or decisive point of interest.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun] > essential part

pointc1385

pithc1425

issue1553

extract1570

catch1600

hinge1638

punctuma1680

resa1732

jet1748

gist1820

bottom line1830

just it1862

crux1888

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > part

headeOE

main1481

chiefty1552

main1567

principality1567

heart1584

the main of alla1591

main1595

masterpiece1612

stress1633

staple1826

node1860

staff and staple1869

meat1886

crux1888

business end1890

spear-head1929

1888 Law Times 84 293/2 There remained the point, which was the crux of the case, whether the defendant was under any duty towards the plaintiff.

1934 R. Benedict Patterns of Culture vii. 232 The crux of the matter is that the behaviour under consideration must pass through the needle's eye of social acceptance.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 179 Culture, not ‘race’, is, again, the crux of the American problem.

1971 Sunday Times 31 Jan. 12/1 The crux, however, is accommodation. This is now widely agreed to be the main determinant of university and polytechnic expansion.

Compounds

† crux-herrings n. Obsolete herrings caught after the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross (September 14).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish

pickle-herring1463

round shore-herring1469

split herring1469

white herring1469

white-salted herring1469

ling fish1489

pickled herring?1577

mudfish1600

old ling1600

sea-stick1604

cor1624

crux-herrings1641

red fish1728

dunfish1746

sea steak1798

caveach1822

fair maid1823

dun codfish1839

crape-fish1856

black herring1883

rollmop1892

schmaltz herring1912

stink-fish1913

stinking fish1935

Spithead pheasant1948

1641 S. Smith Herring-bvsse Trade 7 There are also a sort of Herrings called Crux-Herrings, beginning the 14 of Septemb. being the day noted exal. Crucis; these Herrings are made with salt upon salt, and are carefully sorted out.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Herring Crux Herrings, which are such as are caught after the 14th of September.

Draft additions June 2015

Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. The section of a route or the move that is technically the hardest. Also attributive as crux move, crux pitch.

ΚΠ

1895 W. P. H. Smith in W. P. H. Smith & H. C. Hart Climbing in Brit. Isles II. 30 There is but one slight difficulty before reaching the grand crux at the head.

1918 Alpine Jrnl. Sept. 180 Occasionally if one goes again, the crux is found to be so easy that it seems impossible that one could ever have stuck there.

1936 J. M. Edwards Cwm Idwal Group (rev. ed.) v. 87 The climb lies at first up the slabs of the left wall, then comes in, to the crux at the chock-stone.

1986 J. Tullis Clouds from Both Sides iii. 50 I had made the crux move of the climb.

1996 Guardian 4 Jan. 11/1 He yearned to lead the crux pitch of Central Buttress on Scafell.

2005 N.Y. Times 24 Apr. h11/1 About 200 feet above us towers our final obstacle and the crux of the climb.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	crux
释义	cruxn. Brit. /krʌks/, U.S. /krəks/ Etymology: Latin: see cross n. 1. = cross n., in heraldic and other expressions. crux ansata = tau n. 1b (see quot. 1930). ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > ankh tau1785 crux ansata1841 ankh1861 ansata1868 1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 341 The sign of life (or crux ansata) was compelled to submit to the unintelligible name of ‘Key of the Nile’. 1896 T. Wilson Swastika 766 The Crux Ansata..according to Egyptian mythology, was Ankh, the emblem of Ka, the spiritual double of man. 1930 E. A. T. W. Budge Amulets & Superstit. xviii. 340 It is wrong, too, to call the sign ☥, crux ansata, the ‘handled cross’, for whatever object the hieroglyph may represent, it was certainly not a cross or anything like it. 2. Astronomy. A distinctive constellation of the southern hemisphere, situated in the Milky Way between Centaurus and Musca and resembling a cross; = Southern Cross n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Crux Australis crosier1555 cross1555 Southern Cross1681 crux1837 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198 Crux, a southern constellation formed out of Halley's observations by Augustine Royer in his maps published in 1679. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xi. 253 There is in the constellation Crux, a pear-shaped vacuity of considerable size. 3. figurative. a. A difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; as ‘a textual crux’. Cf. crucify v. 2c (Used by Sheridan and Swift with the sense ‘conundrum, riddle’.)[Cf. German kreuz, Grimm, 2178 g, (quoted from Herder 1778, and Niebuhr); according to Hildebrand taken from the scholastic Latin crux interpretum, etc.] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] riddleOE purposec1350 problema1382 propositiona1382 conclusion1393 divinailc1430 opposal?a1439 riddling?c1475 wordc1480 why1532 dark, hard sentence1535 enigma1539 remblere1599 puzzlement1646 gripha1652 puzzler1651 riddlemy riddlemy1652 puzzle1655 crux1718 teaser1759 puzzleation1767 conundrum1790 poser1793 riddle-me-ree1805 stumper1807 tickler1825 sticker1849 brain-teaser1850 grueller1856 question mark1870 brain-twister1878 skull-buster1926 mind-bender1968 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux knotc1000 the milk in the coconut1840 crux1852 1718 T. Sheridan Let. in J. Swift Wks. (1814) XV. 56 Dear dean, since in cruxes and puns you and I deal, Pray, Why is a woman a sieve and a riddle? 1718 J. Swift To Sheridan 61 As for your new rebus, or riddle, or crux, I will either explain, or repay it in trucks. 1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 69 (note) Ideas have been the crux philosophorum, since Aristotle sent them packing to the present day. 1859 F. D. Maurice What is Revelation 70 To look upon them as mere cruxes and trivialities which may be left to critics. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 401 The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the age of Plato. 1888 Dowden in 19th Cent. XLIII. 336 The consideration of a textual crux in itself sharpens the wits. b. The chief problem; the central or decisive point of interest. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun] > essential part pointc1385 pithc1425 issue1553 extract1570 catch1600 hinge1638 punctuma1680 resa1732 jet1748 gist1820 bottom line1830 just it1862 crux1888 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > part headeOE main1481 chiefty1552 main1567 principality1567 heart1584 the main of alla1591 main1595 masterpiece1612 stress1633 staple1826 node1860 staff and staple1869 meat1886 crux1888 business end1890 spear-head1929 1888 Law Times 84 293/2 There remained the point, which was the crux of the case, whether the defendant was under any duty towards the plaintiff. 1934 R. Benedict Patterns of Culture vii. 232 The crux of the matter is that the behaviour under consideration must pass through the needle's eye of social acceptance. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 179 Culture, not ‘race’, is, again, the crux of the American problem. 1971 Sunday Times 31 Jan. 12/1 The crux, however, is accommodation. This is now widely agreed to be the main determinant of university and polytechnic expansion. Compounds † crux-herrings n. Obsolete herrings caught after the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross (September 14). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish > salted or pickled fish pickle-herring1463 round shore-herring1469 split herring1469 white herring1469 white-salted herring1469 ling fish1489 pickled herring?1577 mudfish1600 old ling1600 sea-stick1604 cor1624 crux-herrings1641 red fish1728 dunfish1746 sea steak1798 caveach1822 fair maid1823 dun codfish1839 crape-fish1856 black herring1883 rollmop1892 schmaltz herring1912 stink-fish1913 stinking fish1935 Spithead pheasant1948 1641 S. Smith Herring-bvsse Trade 7 There are also a sort of Herrings called Crux-Herrings, beginning the 14 of Septemb. being the day noted exal. Crucis; these Herrings are made with salt upon salt, and are carefully sorted out. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Herring Crux Herrings, which are such as are caught after the 14th of September. Draft additions June 2015 Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. The section of a route or the move that is technically the hardest. Also attributive as crux move, crux pitch. ΚΠ 1895 W. P. H. Smith in W. P. H. Smith & H. C. Hart Climbing in Brit. Isles II. 30 There is but one slight difficulty before reaching the grand crux at the head. 1918 Alpine Jrnl. Sept. 180 Occasionally if one goes again, the crux is found to be so easy that it seems impossible that one could ever have stuck there. 1936 J. M. Edwards Cwm Idwal Group (rev. ed.) v. 87 The climb lies at first up the slabs of the left wall, then comes in, to the crux at the chock-stone. 1986 J. Tullis Clouds from Both Sides iii. 50 I had made the crux move of the climb. 1996 Guardian 4 Jan. 11/1 He yearned to lead the crux pitch of Central Buttress on Scafell. 2005 N.Y. Times 24 Apr. h11/1 About 200 feet above us towers our final obstacle and the crux of the climb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641
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