Crossword clues for crusade
crusade
- Zealot's enterprise
- What writer will go on, for love of band
- Tireless campaign
- Movement for the zealous
- Major cause
- Gung-ho campaign
- Fight for change
- Fight for a cause
- Extensive campaign ("Smooth Operator")
- Extensive campaign
- Conversion attempt involving a Hail Mary?
- Concerted campaign
- Charity campaign
- Attack zealously
- Campaigning movement
- Holy war
- More than a cause
- Cause
- What a cause might turn into
- Any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11-13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
- A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- Important campaign
- Eisenhower's "___ in Europe"
- Vigorous campaign
- Christian military expedition
- Drive going backwards so landing in rough
- Mission of a sort
- Zealot's undertaking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crusade \Cru*sade"\ (kr?-s?d"), n. [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.]
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.
Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
Crusade \Cru*sade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Crusading.]
To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed
manner. ``Cease crusading against sense.''
--M. Green.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, respelling of croisade (1570s), from Middle French croisade (16c.), Spanish cruzada, both from Medieval Latin cruciata, past participle of cruciare "to mark with a cross," from Latin crux (genitive crucis) "cross." Other Middle English forms were croiserie, creiserie. Figurative sense of "campaign against a public evil" is from 1786.
1732, from crusade (n.). Related: Crusaded; crusading.
Wiktionary
alt. 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 (context figuratively English) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. 3 (context archaic English) A Portuguese coin; a crusado. n. 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 (context figuratively English) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. 3 (context archaic English) A Portuguese coin; a crusado. vb. To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
WordNet
v. 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 liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: fight, press, campaign, push, agitate]
go on a crusade; fight a holy war
n. 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" [syn: campaign, cause, drive, movement, effort]
any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11-13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
Wikipedia
Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. The Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
The Crusades was a series of religiously-sanctioned military campaigns undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
Crusade(s) may also refer to:
Crusade is the fourth album and third studio album by the British blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released on 1 September 1967 on Decca Records. It was the follow-up to A Hard Road, also released in 1967. As with their two previous albums, Crusade was produced by Mike Vernon. The album was the first recordings of a young 18-year-old guitarist, Mick Taylor.
Crusade is a novel by Robyn Young set during the end of the ninth and final crusade. It was first published by Dutton in 2007.
Crusade is a novel written by Elizabeth Laird and first published by Macmillan in 2007. It is set in the Third Crusade and focuses on a Saracen boy named Salim and an English boy called Adam. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award.
"Crusade" is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke published in 1968 and republished in The Wind from the Sun as well as The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. It follows the extremely long life span of an artificial intelligence that exists on a freezing planet in the vast space between two galaxies. The intelligence sends out scouts into another galaxy to seek other life like themselves, only to discover the inhabitants of planet Earth, whose physique is very different from their own. Tens of thousands of years pass to collect data about the humans, before the intelligence decides to send a "crusade" that will reach planet Earth in the year 2050.
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Crusade is the second book of the Destroyermen series. Matthew Reddy, and the crew of USS Walker (DD-163), are reunited with the destroyer USS Mahan (DD-102), and set out to fight the Grik. Reddy and Walker's marine detachment, continue training the Lemurians to defend themselves and take the war to the Grik. The Grik have now taken over the ship that was chasing them, the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi.
Crusade is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Jean Dufaux, illustrated by Philippe Xavier and published by Le Lombard in French and Cinebook in English.
Crusade is a fantasy novel by James Lowder, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is the third and final novel in "The Empires Trilogy". It was published in paperback in January 1991.
Usage examples of "crusade".
An-Nassir, the emperor of the Almohades, responded to the effort of the Pope by organizing a crusade in Moslem Africa.
The antidrug crusade on television and in magazines suffers from a lack of focus.
She broke the story of his antidrug crusade and continued to trumpet it despite intense criticism.
The government gets their tax money, the lawyers get their fees, smokers get a product they love, and the antismoking lobby gets a crusade to feel superior about.
When, in 1226, Avignon sided with the count of Toulouse against Louis VIII during the Albigensian Crusade, the French king razed the bridge.
The Kill-the-Bees crusade claimed that 100 million bees perished - a figure most observers thought inflated.
Arant idea or that the God-made ectogenetic machines on which the Arant heresy arose had probably existed and been destroyed during the terrible crusade.
If Gijon is become no longer a trade port but rather a naval basin, marshaling port, and embarkation facility, then there is scant need to defend it with land fortifications, not with the intelligence abroad in Europe that all of the larger ships of the navy of England either were destroyed fighting each other in the early days of the civil war that preceded the crusade or were scuttled to prevent capture by one or the other side years agone.
And he, I take it, means to have Gijon attacked and razed before any Crusade can from there be launched?
SEVENTEEN The Bill of Rights FOR JOHN Diefenbaker himself, probably the headiest moments of the Diefenbaker Years came on July i, i 96o, when he rose in the House of Commons to deliver a sixty-two-minute address that eloquently climaxed the chief legislative crusade of his political life: the adoption of a Canadian Bill of Rights.
But some hobs live with families whose grandfathers or even farther back had gone on Crusade, and picked up using opium that way.
With the Crusade underway at last, such travel is greatly restricted, and most of it is controlled by the Knights Hospitaler, which makes things especially difficult, for recently they have given preferential escort to clergy and other religious.
In his intercourse with the Latins, Alexius was patient and artful: his discerning eye pervaded the new system of an unknown world and I shall hereafter describe the superior policy with which he balanced the interests and passions of the champions of the first crusade.
South of France, although any records confirming this would have been destroyed during the systematic devastation of the Languedocian culture that accompanied the Cathar crusade.
God only knew what over the blades of the Amazon sword plant, settling on the Madagascar lace where the recent wave of immigrants seemed to have thinned considerably since their arrival as a glittering turquoise discus passed trailing a shred of black skirt from its jaws and the sea horses, gliding past the walls of the castle with all the diminutive rectitude of the knights of King Richard the Lionhearted raising the siege at Acre, only for it to fall once again to the gleaming ranks of the Saracens a century later ending the last Crusade and, with it, the kingdom of Jerusalem, were now nowhere to be seen.