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nions, the Crimea was called The province ofTauris, and 
is now named Tauricheskaia, which fee, for its hif- 
tory and extent. 
CRI'MEFUL, adj. Wicked; criminal; faulty in a 
high degree ; contrary to duty ; contrary to virtue : 
You proceeded not againft thefe feats, 
So crimeful and fo capital in nature. S/iakefpeare. 
CRI'MELESS, adj. Innocent; without crime : 
My foes could not procure me any fcathe, 
So long as I am loyal, true, and crimelfs. S/iakefpeare. 
CRI'MELN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and territory of Neuftadt: two miles north 
of Weyda. 
CRI'MINAL, adj. Faulty; contrary to right; con¬ 
trary to duty ; contrary to law : 
Live thou, and to thy mother dead attefl. 
That clear fhe died from blemifh criminal. Spenfer. 
Guilty ; tainted with crime ; not innocent.—The negledt 
of any of the relative duties, renders us criminal in the 
light of God. Rogers. —Not civil: as, a criminal profecu- 
tion; the criminal law. 
CRI'MINAL, f A man accufed.—Was ever criminal 
forbid to plead? Drydcn. —A man guilty of a crime.— 
All three perfons that had held chief place of authority 
in their countries; all three ruined, not by war, or by 
nay other difafter, but by juftice and fentence, as delin¬ 
quents and criminals. Bacon, 
CRI'MINALLY, adv. Not innocently; wickedly; 
guiltily.—As our thoughs extend to all fubjects, they 
may be criminally employed on all. Rogers. 
CRI'MINALNESS,yi Guiltinefs; want of innocence. 
CRIMINA'TION, J'. £criminatio , Lat.] The adt of 
accufing; accufation ; arraignment; charge. 
CRI'MINATORY, adj. [from crimina, Lat.] Rela¬ 
ting to accufation ; accufing ; cenforious. 
CRI'MINOUS, adj. \_criminofus , Lat.] Wicked; ini¬ 
quitous ; enormoufly guilty.—The punifliment that be¬ 
longs to that great and criminous guilt, is the forfeiture 
of his right and claim to all mercies, which are made 
over to him by Chrift. Hammond. 
CRI'MINOUSLY, adv. Enormoufly; very wicked¬ 
ly.—Some particular duties of piety and charity, which 
were moft criminoufy omitted before. Hammond. 
CRl'MINOUSNESS, f. Wickednefs; guilt; crime. 
.—I could never be convinced of any fuch criminoufnefs in 
him, as willingly to expofe his life to the ftroke of juf- 
tice, and malice of his enemies. King Charles. 
CRIM'MITZSCHAU, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Erzgebirg, fitua- 
ted on the Pleiffe, built in the thirteenth century. The 
inhabitants carry on manufactures of cloth, flannels, and 
linen : eight milesnorth-wed of Zwickau. 
CRIMNO'DES, f. [from x^ifooi/, bran.] An epithet 
given to that, date of the urine when it depofits a fedi- 
rnent like bran. 
CRIMOSIN', adj. \_crinwfmo, Italian; commonly writ¬ 
ten as it is pronounced, crimfon.] A fpecies of red colour ; 
Upon her head a crimofn coronet, 
With damafk rofes and daffadilies fet. • -Spenfer. 
CRIMP, adj. [from crumble, or crimble. ] Friable; brit¬ 
tle; eafily crumbled ; eafily reduced to powder: 
Now the fowler, warn’d 
By thefe good omens, with fwift early flops 
Treads the crimp earth, ranging through fields and glades. 
Philips. 
Not confident; not forcible : a low cant word. —The evi¬ 
dence is crimp-, the witnelfes fwear backwards and for¬ 
wards, and contradict themfelves; and his tenants flick 
by him. Arbutlinot. 
To CRIM'PLE, v. a. [from rumple, crumple, crimplc.] 
To. contract j to corrugate; to caufe to (brink or con- 
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traft.—He paffed the cautery through them, and accord¬ 
ingly crimpled them up. WiJ'eman. 
CRIM'SON,/. [ crimofino, Ital.] Red, fomewhat dark, 
ened with blue : 
Why does the foil endue 
The blufhing poppy with a crimfon hue ? Prior. 
Red in general.—Can you blame her then, being a maid 
yet rofed over with the virgin crimfon of raodefty ? Shakefp. 
The crimfon dream diflain’d his arms around, 
And the difdainful foul came rufhing thro’ the wound. 
Dry den. 
To CRIM'SON, v. a. To dye with crimfon. See 
Dying. 
Here wafl thou bay’d, brave hart! 
Here didfit thou fall; and here thy hunters ftand 
S^n’d in thy fpoil, and crimfon’d in thy lethe. Skakefpeare. 
CRIM'SON GRASS VETCH, f. in botany. See 
Lathyrus Nissolia. 
CRIN'CUM, J'. A cramp; a contraction; whimfy. 
A cant word-. 
For jealoufy is but a kind 
Of clap and crincum. of the mind. Hudibras. 
CRINE'SIUS (Chriftopher), a learned German di¬ 
vine, born in Bohemia in 1584, and afterwards an emi¬ 
nent profellbr of theology in the univerfity of Altdorf, 
where he died in 1626. He was the author of various 
works, abounding in erudition; among which are, r. 
Exercitationes Hebraicce. 2. Gymnafmm & Lexicon Syriacum, 
2 vols. 4to. 3. Lingua Samaritica, 4to. 4. Grammatica 
Chaldaica, 4to. 5. De AuEloritate Verbi divini in Hebraico 
Codice , 1646, 4to. 6. A Diflertation on the Confufion of 
Tongues. 
CRINGE, f. Bow; fervile civility : 
Let me be grateful; but let far from me 
Be fawning cringe , and falfe diflembling looks. Philips. 
To CRINGE, v. a. [from kriechen t Ger.] To draw to¬ 
gether; to contract: 
Whip him, fellows, 
Till, like a boy, you fee him cringe his face, 
And whine aloud for mercy. S/iakefpeare. 
To CRINGE, v. n. [kriechen, Ger.] To bow r ; to pay 
court with bows; to fawn; to flatter.—Flatterers have 
the flexor mufcles fo ftrong, that they are always bowing 
and cringing. Arbuthnot. 
The cringing knave, who feeks a place 
Without fuccefs, thus tells his cafe. Swift. 
CRINI'GEROUS, adj. [ criniger, Lat.] Hairy; over¬ 
grown with hair. 
CRINI'SUS, in fabulous hiftory, a Trojan prince, who 
expofed his'daughter on the fea, rather than fuffer her 
to be devoured by the fea-monfter which Neptune fent 
to punilh the infidelity of Laomedon. The daughter 
came fafe to the (hores of Sicily. Crinifus fome time 
after went in queft of his daughter, and was fo difeonfo- 
late for her lofs, that the gods changed him into a river 
in Sicily, and granted him the power of metamorphofing 
liimfelf into whatever fliape he pleafed. He made ufe 
of this privilege to feduce the neighbouring nymphs; 
whence the Naiades. 
CRINI'TA CAFEN'SIS, f. See Pavetta Caffra. 
CRI'NITE, adj. jeriuitus, Lat.] Seemingly having a 
tail of long hair: 
How comate, crinate, caudate, ftars are fram’d 
I knew. Fairfax. 
CRI'NITUS (Peter), in Italian, Pietro Riccio, a native 
of Florence, who ftudied under Angelo Poliziano, whofe 
works, after his death, he took pains in collecting. He 
was a friend of Pico of Mirandola, and enjoyed a confi- 
derable reputation in polite literature. He fucceeded 
Poliziano in the Florentine fchool, and is charged with 
imitating 
