Definition of Crucible

Crucible

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.

A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.

Related Definitions:

Affliction, And, As, At, Bottom, Calcining, Clay, Composed, Crucible, Decisive, Degree, For, Furnace, Graphite, Heat, Hollow, Kind, Melted, Melting, Metal, Most, Of, Or, Place, Platinum, Pot, Receive, Refractory, Require, Severe, Some, Strong, Substance, Test, The, To, Trial, Used, Very, Vessel, Which

Crucible Quotations

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Tony Robbins

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
Steve Buyer

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Israel Zangwill

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
Bruce Babbitt

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.
John Hawkes

More Crucible Quotations

Crucible Translations

crucible in German is Tiegel
crucible in Spanish is crisol

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.