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noun
Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
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noun
A grand, concerted effort towards some purportedly worthy cause.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Qualifier: sometimes ironically
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noun
A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: Christianity, Protestantism, government, politics
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noun
A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
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Usage: archaic
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noun
Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims and Jews who inhabited it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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verb
To go on a military crusade.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: campaign, cause, drive, movement, effort
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Broader terms: venture
Narrower terms: advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib, gay liberation movement, gay lib, lost cause, reform, war, youth movement, youth crusade
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition
Narrower terms: First Crusade, Second Crusade, Third Crusade, Fourth Crusade, Fifth Crusade, Sixth Crusade, Seventh Crusade
verb
go on a crusade; fight a holy war
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: campaign, take the field
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
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Broader terms: advertise, advertize, promote, push
History
From French croisade, introduced into English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun. Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade". Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.
Capitalised by Mills, The History of the Crusades (1820) when referring to a specific campaign ("The third and fourth Crusades" p. 95) but not when referring to the general concept ("the clergy successfully preached the crusade through all the German state" p. 87). More at crusade.
Across languages
151 source translations are retained for this English entry.
