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cruor

American  
[kroo-awr] / ˈkru ɔr /

noun

  1. coagulated blood, or the portion of the blood that forms the clot.

cruor British  
/ ˈkrʊɔː /

noun

  1. med a blood clot

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Etymology

Origin of cruor

1650–60; < Latin: blood (that flows from a wound), gore; akin to crude

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Resonant aures, Stillatque niger naris aduc� Cruor; at venas rumpit hiantes.

From Project Gutenberg

Cruor, krōō′or, n. coagulated blood.—n.

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Sanguis is the condition of physical life; cruor, the symbol of death by slaughter.

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It appears also from Ovid's account that there was much drunkenness and obscene language; this was, in fact, a festa very different in character from those of the Numan calendar; and that there was a magical element in the cult of the deity seems proved by the mysterious allusion to "virgineus cruor" in connection with her grove not far from this scene of revelry, in Martial iv.

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"Gens unica terras Incolit a sævo serpentum innoxia morsu, Marmaridæ Psylli: par lingua potentibus herbis, Ipse cruor tutus, nullumque admittere virus Vel cantu cessante potest."

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