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Crusade   /krusˈeɪd/   Listen
noun
Crusade  n.  
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 Muslims.
2.
Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
3.
A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.


verb
Crusade  v. i.  (past & past part. crusaded; pres. part. crusading)  To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner. "Cease crusading against sense."





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... had seemed that the answer came only in the closer pressing to their lips of the cup of suffering. As they still pleaded, spreading the white wings of prayer over their dear ones, suddenly there came to them the inspiration, which led to the crusade, an inspiration from ...
— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm
... in the Flower Festival," said Mrs. Burgoyne good-naturedly, "and the minute it's over I'm going to start a crusade for a girls' clubhouse in Old Paloma. Conditions over there for the girls are something hideous. But I suppose we'll have to go on with the Festival for the present. It's a great occasion, ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... her case before the same high moral tribunal and allow Ireland, Egypt, or India to have the law of her. Then, and not until then, the world of little States and beaten peoples may begin to believe that the Peace Crusade has some foundations in honour and honesty—but not ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement
... crown, without the consent of his feudal superior. He was therefore bound to annul the concessions which had been extorted from John, as having been obtained in contempt of the holy see, to the degradation of royalty, the disgrace of the nation, and to the impediment of the crusade. At the same time he wrote to the barons, re-stating his reasons, exhorting them to submit, requesting them to lay their claims before him in the council to be held at Rome; and promising that he would induce the king to consent to whatever might be deemed just or reasonable, ...
— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow
... fatal to the Republican movement, because it turned the enthusiasm of the active spirits in democratic politics from the desire for radical changes in the form of government, to the crusade for economic changes, and the belief in a coming social revolution. The existence of monarchy seemed a small and comparatively unimportant affair to men and women who were hoping to get poverty abolished, ...
— The Rise of the Democracy • Joseph Clayton


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