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CRUSADE
campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; “he supported populist campaigns”; “they worked in the cause of world peace”; “the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant”; “the movement to end slavery”; “contributed to the war effort”
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
crusade
(verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crusade (plural crusades)
(historical) Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
(figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
(politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
(archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
Verb
crusade (third-person singular simple present crusades, present participle crusading, simple past and past participle crusaded)
(intransitive) To go on a military crusade.
(intransitive) To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Etymology
Noun
Crusade (plural Crusades)
One 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 who occupied it.
Source: Wiktionary
Cru*sade" (kr-sd"), n. Etym: [F. croisade, fr. Pr. crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross.]
1. 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. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
3. A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
Cru*sade", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crusading.]
Definition: To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner. "Cease crusading against sense." M. Green.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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