crusade

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Formed as a hybrid of Middle French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, cruzata. In English use since the 1570s.

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(medieval history): Crusade

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crusade (plural crusades)

  1. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
  2. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    a crusade against drug abuse
  3. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

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crusade (third-person singular simple present crusades, present participle crusading, simple past and past participle crusaded)

  1. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

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