cris (see Castanheda, iii. 379). And in English we find a verb to ‘crease’; see in Purchas, i. 532, and
this:
1604.—“This Boyhog we tortured not, because of his confession, but crysed him.”—Scot’s Discourse
of Iava, in Purchas, i. 175.
[1704.—“At which our people…were most of them creezed.”—Yule, Hedges’
Diary, Hak. Soc. ii. cccxxxvii.] Also in Braddel’s Abstract of the Sijara Malayu:
“He was in consequence creased at the shop of a sweetmeat seller, his blood flowed on the ground,
but his body disappeared miraculously.”—Sijara Malayu, in J. Ind. Arch. v. 318.
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