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The English word crucial (1706, meaning cross-shaped) derives from the French crucial, which is actually a medical term for the ligaments of the knee, which cross each other. This came to us from the Latincrux, meaning cross. It came to mean "decisive, critical" around 1830 as an extension of the 1620 coinage by Francis Bacon "Instantias Crucis", a requirement to choose.

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