Crusade Definition

kro͝o-sād
crusaded, crusades, crusading
noun
crusades

Any of the separate military expeditions undertaken as part of the Crusades.

Webster's New World
Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
American Heritage
A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.
American Heritage
A vigorous, concerted action for some cause or idea, or against some abuse.
Webster's New World

(archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

One of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

During the Crusade, they encountered the first batch of jihadists near the coast.
Wiktionary
verb
crusaded, crusades, crusading
To engage in a crusade.
Webster's New World
To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
the Crusades
  • a series of military expeditions undertaken chiefly by European Christians from the 11th to the end of the 13th cent. to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Crusade

Noun

Singular:
crusade
Plural:
crusades

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Crusade

  • the Crusades

Origin of Crusade

  • From Middle French croisade (“marked by the Cross”), from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare (“to mark with a cross”), from Latin crux (“cross”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Formed as a hybrid of Middle French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, cruzata. In English use since the 1570s.

    From Wiktionary

  • French croisade Spanish cruzada both ultimately from Latin crux cruc- cross

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Crusade Sentence Examples

  • The third crusade numbered among its chiefs Floris III.

  • The foremost heroes of the first crusade were Netherlanders.

  • It was in 1215 that the leader of this strange Crusade had first taken the vow; it was twelve years afterwards when he finally attempted to carry the vow into effective execution.

  • In 1269 James the Conqueror of Aragon, at the bidding of the pope, turned from the long Spanish Crusade to a Crusade in the East in order to atone for his offences against the law matrimonial.

  • Charles of Anjou had succeeded, as a result of the long "crusade" waged by the papacy against the Hohenstaufen from the council of Lyons to the battle of Tagliacozzo (1245-1268), in establishing himself in the kingdom of Sicily.

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