Cruentation. World English Historical Dictionary

Cruentation. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cruentation

[ad. L. cruentātiōn-em, n. of action f. cruentāre (see prec.); in Tertullian with the sense ‘staining with blood.’] ‘A term applied to the oozing of blood which occurs sometimes when an incision is made into the dead body’; also formerly to the supposed ‘bleeding from the wounds of a dead person in the presence of the murderer’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).

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