Cruento, cruentas, cruentare. Cic.To make blouddie.Prata cruentantur. Propert. Latè cruentare arua.Senec.To make the fieldes blouddie a great compasse.Morsu cruentare aliquid. Propert. Hæc te lacerat, hæc cruentat oratio.Cic.Cruentare Rempub. vulribus. Cic.Cruentari scelere.Cic.To be polluted or defiled with some wicked act.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
crŭento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cruentus], to make bloody, to spot with blood (class.). I.Lit.: vigiles, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4: manus suorum sanguine, Nep. Epam. 10, 3; cf. Liv. 23, 9, 4, and Tac. H. 1, 58 fin.: cornipedem ferratā calce, Sil. 17, 541: gladium, Cic. Inv. 2, 4, 14; cf. tela, Ov. M. 8, 424: ōs, id. ib. 4, 104: dextras, id. ib. 11, 23: cruentati redeunt, id. ib. 3, 572: ut sequenti die Luna se in Aquario cruentaret,
would appear to be stained with blood
, Suet. Dom. 16.—B.Trop.: haec te lacerat, haec cruentat oratio,
wounds
, Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 86 (v. the figure in its connection).—II.Transf.A.To spot, stain, pollute: vestem, Lucr. 4, 1033.—B.To dye red, to tinge with red (post-Aug.): conchylio vestis cruentatur, Sen. Contr 2, 15 fin.; so Stat. S. 1, 5, 38.