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Definition of Crusade
1. Noun. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end. "Contributed to the war effort"
Generic synonyms: Venture
Specialized synonyms: Ad Blitz, Ad Campaign, Advertising Campaign, Anti-war Movement, Charm Campaign, Consumerism, Campaigning, Candidacy, Candidature, Electioneering, Political Campaign, Fund-raising Campaign, Fund-raising Drive, Fund-raising Effort, Feminism, Feminist Movement, Women's Lib, Women's Liberation Movement, Gay Lib, Gay Liberation Movement, Lost Cause, Reform, War, Youth Crusade, Youth Movement
Derivative terms: Campaign, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive
2. Verb. Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for. "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate"
Generic synonyms: Advertise, Advertize, Promote, Push
Related verbs: Advertise, Advertize, Promote, Push
Derivative terms: Campaign, Crusader, Fighter, Push
3. Noun. Any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.
Specialized synonyms: First Crusade, Second Crusade, Third Crusade, Fourth Crusade, Fifth Crusade, Sixth Crusade, Seventh Crusade
4. Verb. Go on a crusade; fight a holy war.
Definition of Crusade
1. n. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
2. v. i. To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.
Definition of Crusade
1. Proper noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. Any of the military expedition undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquest the Levant from the Muslims ¹
3. Noun. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. ¹
4. Verb. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crusade
1. to engage in a holy war [v -SADED, -SADING, -SADES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusade
Literary usage of Crusade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Honorius III ordered the crusade to bo preached" in all the churches of Christendom.
Though the money thus collected was considerable, it was by no means ..."
2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"For this supplement to the first crusade, see Anna Comnena, Alexius, L xi. p.
... 10 For the third crusade, of Frederic Barbarossa, see Nicetas in Isaac. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"Expeditions by lind: the first crusade. AD 1101; the second of Conrad in.
and Louis VU. AD 1147; the third of Frederic IAD 1189 were finally delivered by ..."
4. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"As the impulse toward reform weakened, the crusade became something of a convention,
... But as Urban II had preached the First crusade and his successors ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Fourth which it was planned to transport on crusade, Venetian vessels to Egypt.
... An outburst of the old enthusiasm led to the Children's crusade of 1212, ..."
6. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"Second crusade.—St. Bernard.—Third crusade : Philip Augustus and Richard ...
Eighth and last crusade.—Death of St. Louis. —Results of the crusades. ..."
7. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"A considerable body of valorous knights and barons (whereof the titular chief
was Count Baldwin of Flanders) was collected for this "Fourth" crusade. ..."
8. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1906)
"The many peoples who took part in the First crusade. II. THE FIRST crusade
Ekkehard, a well-known German historian (see above, pp. 127 syq. ..."
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