Cruciform is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRUCIFORM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something cross-shaped
• a thing shaped like a cross.
• geometric curve, shaped like a cross, that has four similar branches asymptotic to two mutually perpendicular pairs of lines
ADJECTIVE:
• cross-shaped
• having the shape of a cross
• (of a church) having a cross-shaped plan with a nave and transepts.
• Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• forming or arranged in a cross

Words related to CRUCIFORM

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Words that contain CRUCIFORM

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How to use CRUCIFORM in a sentence

• In some cases bearings heat from the existence of a cruciform groove on the top brass for the distribution of the oil, the effect of which is to leave the top of the bearings dry.
• The church is of cruciform shape, in Early English style.
• The Church of Holy Trinity, most beautifully situated on the river Avon, is cruciform in plan.
• In the Island of Lewis, in Scotland, there is one combining the cruciform and circular form.
• It was cruciform, with two western towers and a central one, and is believed to have had three spires similar to those of Lichfield but probably earlier in point of date.
• To the right, a turning leads to Symondsbury, where there is an old cruciform church with a central tower and, in the chancel, the tomb of Bishop Gulston, uncle of Addison.
• The Perpendicular cruciform church suffered greatly from fire some years ago, though happily the tower escaped.
• The early fifteenth-century church is cruciform if we regard the high porches as transepts.
• Sampford church is a cruciform Decorated building with some interesting monuments to the Strangeways, the family of Lord Ilchester.
• This small town has a station on the South Western main line and a large cruciform church, situated at the foot of the steep hill on which the town is built.
• All it has to show the visitor now is a cruciform church with Norman and Early English fragments and a good Perpendicular tower.
• The handsome cruciform church, in the midst of its fine chestnut trees, is of much interest.
• The cruciform building is in the main Transitional and Early English.
• It is cruciform in shape, with an octagonal termination.
• A pinnacle rises out of the roof in a cruciform shape, and four smaller ones exquisitely sculptured stand between the gables.
• Nearer at hand the solemn cruciform of the old church was steeped in shade, the high bell-tower dropping a veil of English ivy as it rose against the sky.
• The church of St Mary is a handsome cruciform Perpendicular building.
• The church was to be cruciform, with a vestry on one side balanced by an organ chamber on the other.
• At the foot of the rock are the cruciform remains of the Abbey of the Cistercians.
• Triad of the Druids inscribed on a cruciform tree, 504-u.
• Here also we have the cruciform church, with four splendid arches rising from the intersection of nave and choir, and once supporting the tower.
• The plan of this interior is cruciform, two hundred feet in each dimension.
• The church is cruciform, with an octagonal central tower.
• The church is a small cruciform building with a central octagonal tower and spire.
• This is a very fine cruciform barn similar to those at Doulting and Pilton, but rather richer in detail.
• It is cruciform in plan, with a central tower, and is said to be an E.
• The plan of the church is cruciform, the transepts and chancel being short, and the latter very low.
• As will be seen by the fragments in the churchyard a nave once made the building cruciform, and its proportions then would not have disgraced a small cathedral.
• The finely placed Early English cruciform church has several interesting monuments to members of former local families, including sixteenth century memorials of the Cowper-Coles.
• Within we find a huge cruciform chamber lighted by six square openings.
• The temple is cruciform in shape, but the two arms of the cross are unequal.
• Cairn H covered a corridor leading to a chamber and opening off on each side into a side-chamber, the whole group thus being cruciform.

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