Crux Decussata

A St. Andrew’s cross

“Crux decussāta est in qua duo ligna directa et æquabilia inter se obliquantur, cujus formam refert litera X quæ, ut ait Isidorus (Orig. 1, iii.) ‘in figura crucem et in numero decem demonstrat.ʹ Hæc vulgo Andreana vocatur, quod vetus traditio sit in hac S. Antream fuisse necatum.”—Gretser: De Cruce, book i. p. 2.

· ·

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.