Definition of Crusades

1. Proper noun. (plural of Crusade) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of crusade) ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of crusade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crusades

1. crusade [v] - See also: crusade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusades

crus of antihelix
crus of fornix
crus of helix
crus posterius capsulae internae
crus posterius stapedis
crus sinistrum diaphragmatis
crus sinistrum fasciculi atrioventricularis
crusade
crusaded
crusader
crusaderlike
crusaders
crusades
crusading
crusadingly
crusado
crusadoes
crusados
cruse
cruses
cruset
crusets
crush
crush-worthy
crush hat
crush kidney
crush out

Literary usage of Crusades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Empire and the Papacy, 918-1273 by Thomas Frederick Tout (1903)
"CHAPTER VIII THE EARLY Crusades AND THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM (1095-1187)' F-arly Pilgrimages to Palestine — The Turkish Conquest — Causes of the ..."

2. General History of Civilization in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire by Guizot (François), Caleb Sprague Henry (1856)
"The first character^ the crusades is their universality ; all Europe concurred ... Before the crusades, Europe had never been moved by the same sentiment, ..."

3. The Greek and Eastern Churches by Walter Frederic Adeney (1908)
"Literature of the Crusades (Eng. trans., edited by Lady Duff Gordon), a valuable critical study ; Archer and Kingsford, The Crusades ("Story of the ..."

4. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1854)
"Before the crusades, Europe had never been moved by the same sentiment, ... The crusades made manifest the existence of Christian Europe. ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"From that time the Popes always felt that the crusades were peculiarly their ... For they believed that the crusades were God's work and that they were His ..."

6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"In the age of the crusades, the Christians, both of the East and Wes were persuaded of their lawfulness and merit; their arguments are clouded by the ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"CHAFFER LIX Preservation of Ike Greek Empire—Numbers, Passage, and Emil of the Second and Third Crusades—-St. Bernard—Reign of Saladin in Egi/pt and ..."

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