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peradventure may feem full to me, may appear very crude 
-and maimed to a ftranger. Dishy. 
Abfurd expreliions, crude abortive thoughts, 
All the lewd legions of exploded faults. Rofcommon. 
CRU'DELY, adv. Unripely; without due preparation: 
Th’ advice was true ; but fear had feiz’d the mod, 
And all good counfel is on cowards loll: 
The quellion crudely put, to (hun delay, 
’Twas carried by the major part to (lay. Dryden. 
CRU'DEN, a bay of Scotland, formed by a riven of 
the fame name, on the eatt coaft of the county of Aber¬ 
deen : eight miles foiith of Peterhead. 
CRU'DENESS,/! Unripenefs; indigeftion. 
CRU'DITY, J. Indigeftion ; inconcoftion.—A diet 
of vifcid aliment creates flatulency and crudities in the 
ftomach. Arbuthnot .—Unripenefs; want of maturity. 
To CRU'DLE, v. a. [a word of uncertain etymology.] 
To coagulate ; to congeal : 
I felt my crudled blood 
Congeal with fear ; my hair with horror flood. Dryden. 
CRU'DY, adj. Concreted ; coagulated : 
His cruel wounds, with crudy blood congeal’d, 
They binden up fo wifely as they may. Spenfcr. 
[From crude. ] Raw; chill.—Sherris fack afcends into 
-the brain : dries me there all the foolifti, dull, and crudy, 
vapours which environ it. Shakefpeare. 
CRU'EL, adj. [ cruel , Fr. crudelis, Lat.] Pleafed with 
hurting others ; inhuman ; hard-hearted ; void of pity ; 
wanting compalfion ; favage ; barbarous ; unrelenting : 
.Art thou that cruel god, whofe eyes 
Delight in blood, and human facrifice. Dryden. 
1 [Of things.] Bloody; mifchievous ; deftru&ive ; cauf- 
ing pain.—Confider mine enemies; for they are many, 
and they hate me with cruel hatred. Pfalrn xxv. 19. 
CRU'ELLY, adv. In a cruel manner; inhumanly; 
barbaroufly.—He relies upon a broken reed, that not 
. only bafely fails, but alfo cruelly pierces, the hand that 
Teds upon it. South. 
Since you deny him entrance, he demands 
His wife, whom cruelly you hold in bands. Dryden. 
Painfully; mifchievoufly.—Brimftone and wild-fire, tho’ 
•they burn cruelly , and are hard to quench, yet make no 
fuch fiery wind as gun-powder. Bacon. 
CRU'ELNESS,y. inhumanity ; cruelty : 
But (he more cruel, and more favage wild, 
Than either lion or the lionefs, 
Shames not to be with guiltlefs blood defil’d; 
She taketh glory in her cruelnefs. Spenfer. 
CRU'ELTY,/! \_cruaute , Fr.] Inhumanity; favage- 
jnefs; barbarity; delight in the pain or ntifery of others: 
The cruelty and envy of the people. 
Permitted by our daflard nobles, 
Have fuffered me by the voice of flaves to be 
Whoop’d out of Rome. Shakefpeare. 
A£t of intentional afflidlion.—There were great changes 
in the world by the revolutions of empire, the cruelties 
, of conquering, and the calamities of enilaved nations. 
Temple. 
Of all the monftrous paflions and opinions which have 
rrept into the world, there is none fo wonderful, as that 
thofe who profefs the common name of Chriftians, fhould 
purfue each other with rancour and hatred for differences 
in the way of following the example of their Saviour. 
It feems fo natural that all who purfue the fteps of any 
leader fhould form themfelves after his manners, that it 
is impofiible to account for effedts fo different from what 
we might expeft from thofe who profefs themfelves.fol- 
lowers of the higheft pattern of meeknefs and charity, 
.but by afcribing fuch effects to the ambition and cor- 
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ruptiotv of thofe who are fo audacious, with fouls full of 
fury, to ferve at the altars of the God of peace. But 
what feems mod aftonifhing is, that thofe who have been 
bleifed with the knowledge of the true God, who is re- 
prefented to us under the endearing characters, “The 
father of mercies,” and “ God of all confolation,” fhould 
notwithftanding be influenced by fo diabolical a fpifit; 
fhould pretend they are pleafing the Maker of mankind, 
while they are deftroying his works in the moll cruel 
and barbarous manner; not for treafonable pradtices, 
nor for atrocious crimes, or being bad members of the 
community ; but for mere difference in opinion in what 
(h;\ll be deemed the mo ft proper form of Chriftian wor- 
(hip, or in what (hall confift the articles of our belief. 
In the diftrict of Thouloufe, in France, the Albigenfes, 
who had feparated from the church of Rome, were very 
numerous : the pope lent his legate to make inquifition 
againft them ; and wrote^o Philip, the French king, to 
fupprefs them by force; and promifed remiffion of all 
fins to whomfoever would take up arms againft them 
and deftroy them. Raymond earl of Thouloufe was ex¬ 
communicated by the pope, and his country given to 
whoever would feize it. A crufade or army of crofs- 
bearers, was raifed, who attacked the heretics, (as they 
were called,) took their cities, filled all places with 
(laughter and blood, and burnt many whom they took 
prifoners. In 1209 Biterre was taken by them, and all 
the inhabitants, without regard to age or fex, cruelly 
put to the fword ; and the city burnt to the ground. 
And though there were many catholics in it, the abbot 
Cifteaux cried out, “ Slay them all,* for the Lord knows 
who are his:” on which the foldiers butchered them 
without mercy. Circaffone was alfo deftroyed, and the 
captive heretics put to death by the mod horrible in¬ 
ventions. This was their conftant practice wherever 
their arms were fuccefsful, tormenting, burning, and 
burying alive, all they took captive. They indeed only 
hanged Aymeric, a nobleman and governor of La Vaur, 
and beheaded eighty of leffer degree : to Girarda, Ay- 
meric’s fifter, they were fo obliging as only to throw her 
into a pit, and cover her alive with (tones; while at 
Pulcra Vallis, after many indignities and cruel treat¬ 
ment, they burnt four hundred, and hanged fifty more. 
At Caftres de Termis, they put Raymond, lord of the 
place, into jail, and then burnt before his eyes, in one 
large fire, his wife, fifter, and maiden-daughter, with 
fome other ladies who refufed to embrace the Rornifh 
faith. 
In 1534, the French king, Francis I. ordered an inqui¬ 
fition to be made at Paris againft the proteftants ; fome 
of whom were difcovered by informers, others appre¬ 
hended on fufpicion, and put to the torture, and both 
forts burned, after a very barbarous manner ; for, being 
tied to a pulley, they were occafionally drawn up a great 
height, then let down into the fire, and prefently after 
fnatched up again : after torturing them in this manner 
for fome time, the executioner cut the rope, and they 
dropped into the flames, and were confumed. Thole 
who were thought to be more learned than the reft had 
their tongues cut out, and were then brought to the 
(lake and burned. 
In England, likewife, the proteftants have had a (hare 
in the cruelties practifed by the Romilh church : for, 
upon queen Mary’s coming to the crown, all the fan- 
guinary penal laws were revived; and, in the fpace of 
five years and four months, which that bloody wo¬ 
man reigned, there were burnt and roafted for their 
religion, five bilhops, twenty-one divines, eight gentle¬ 
men, eighty-four artificers, one hundred hulbandmen, 
fervants, and labourers, twenty-fix wives, twenty wi¬ 
dows, nine .virgins, two boys, and two infants ; fixteen 
periflied in jails, and twelve were buried in dung-hills. 
Others affirm, that, in the two firft years of the perfecu- 
tion, in 1 555, eight hundred were put to death. Had 
