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
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 ..."