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What (who) is crucially - definition
crucially
see crucial
Crucial
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Crucial (disambiguation)
·adj Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
II. Crucial ·adj Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
crucial
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Crucial (disambiguation)
['kru:?(?)l]
¦ adjective
1. decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something.
2. informal excellent.
Derivatives
cruciality -??'al?ti noun
crucially adverb
Word History
The word crucial entered English in the 18th century in the sense 'cross-shaped', coming via French from Latin crux (stem cruc-) 'cross'. The sense 'decisive' developed from the Latin phrase instantia crucis 'crucial instance', coined by the philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Bacon was using the crux, or fingerpost marking a fork at a crossroads, as a metaphor for the moment at which one has to take a decision. The scientists Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle took up the metaphor in experimentum crucis 'crucial experiment'. Latin crux is the root of a number of words, including cross, crucible, crucify, cruise, crusade, and excruciate.
Examples of use of crucially
1. Crucially and extraordinarily, bleed air is not filtered at all.
2. Crucially, this coincides with the Taliban‘s offensive in Afghanistan.
3. There may, crucially, be a deal on greenhouse gas emissions.
4. Crucially, almost half British cyber–gamblers are women.
5. Centers for Disease Control and –– crucially –– Rotary International.