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Crux

(krŭks, kro͝oks)

See Southern Cross.

[Modern Latin, from Latin crux, cross.]

crux

(krŭks, kro͝oks)

n. pl. crux·es or cru·ces (kro͞o′sēz)

1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.

2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

3. The most difficult portion of an ascent in rock climbing or mountaineering.

[Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum), torment (of interpreters), from Latin crux, cross.]

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crux

(krʌks)

n, pl cruxes or cruces (ˈkruːsiːz)

1. a vital or decisive stage, point, etc (often in the phrase the crux of the matter)

2. a baffling problem or difficulty

3. (Mountaineering) mountaineering the most difficult and often decisive part of a climb or pitch

4. (Heraldry) a rare word for cross

[C18: from Latin: cross]

Crux

(krʌks)

n, Latin genitive Crucis (ˈkruːsɪs)

(Astronomy) the more formal name for the Southern Cross

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crux

(krʌks)

n., pl. crux•es, cru•ces (ˈkru siz)

1. the central or pivotal point; essence: the crux of the matter.

2. a perplexing difficulty.

3. a cross.

[1635–45; < Latin: scaffold used in executions, torment]

crux

- Originated as a reference to a real cross and its association with torment and trouble.

See also related terms for torment.

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Noun	1.	Crux - a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus Crux Australis, Southern Cross Alpha Crucis - the brightest star in the Southern Cross Beta Crucis - the second brightest star in the Southern Cross Milky Way, Milky Way Galaxy, Milky Way System - the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
	2.	crux - the most important point crux of the matter alpha and omega - the basic meaning of something; the crucial part point - a brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"

crux

noun crucial point, heart, core, essence, nub, decisive point He said the crux of the matter was economic policy.

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[krʌks] N (cruxes or cruces (pl)) [ˈkruːsiːz] the crux of the matter → lo esencial or el meollo or el quid del asunto

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crux

(kraks) – plural ˈcruxes – noun

a difficult or essential point. That is the crux of the matter.lo esencial

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There were all sorts of legal cruxes to be thought out, not only regarding the taking of life, even of a monstrosity in human form, but also of property.

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The term "pericope" refers specifically to a scriptural passage "appointed to be read in Church Services" (64), and Chambers uses examples from Herbert and Milton, among others, to demonstrate that recognition of a pericope, not just a biblical allusion, at the heart of a poem may resolve interpretive cruxes. Second, we must pay more attention to how seventeenth-century poets follow liturgical models and use combinations of poems to create meaning.

Transfigured Rites in Seventeenth-Century Poetry

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