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.
Cruentus, sanguine9 ciuiÛ. Cic. Arma cruenta. Ouid. Bello cruentior ipso. Ouid.More cruell and blouddie.Cruentum cadauer.Cic. Cædes cruenta. Senec.Causa pœnæ meæ non est cruenta.Ouid.The cause of my punishment is not murder. Dapes cruentæ. Virg.Dolor cruentus. Lucan. Griefe causing one to kill himselfe.Facinus cruentum.Senec. Facta cruenta. Ouid.Fatum cruentum.Ouid.Cruentæ guttæ.Cic.Droppes of bloud.Hostis cruentus.Stat. Humus cruenta. Virg.Ira cruenta. Horat. Anger thirsting bloud.Mars cruentus. Horat. Mors cruenta. Ouid.Morsus cruentus.Senec. Cruentus mucro. Cic.Nota cruenta.Senec.A marke of bloud.Noctes cruentæ. Claud. Palma cruenta. Ouid.Præda cruenta.Ouid. Spolia cruenta. Virg.Spuma cruenta.Virg.Tempestas cruenta campi. Claud. Thalami cruenti.Ouid.Cruenta victoria.Salust.When many be slaine on both sides: a blouddie victorie.Virtus cruenta.Stat. Vmbra cruenta. Ouid.Vrina cruenta Plin.Vryne tedde as bloud. Cruenta vox, & Cruenta oratio.A cruell and blouddie sentence.
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.