Meanings (ES + gloss)
asunto esencial • meollo • punto crucial • quid
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
busilis
A puzzle or difficulty.
The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
What I have advanced upon this species of verse will contribute to solve a poetical problem, thrown out by Dryden as a crux to his brethren