crusade
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- noun
- /kruːˈseɪd/
:
cruzada
- Kings and emperors had gone off on Crusade, along with hordes of lesser folk.
- the First Crusade
- religious crusade
The first, the first crusade didn't kill a single Muslim.
- The first, the first crusade didn't kill a single Muslim.
- Look up Peter the Hermit and the Peasants Crusade.
- And then I was a knight in the Templars in the Crusades.
- We're spreading it, but we're doing it not by force necessarily, like back in the Crusades, but by hope.
- This is not in most histories of the Crusades, but the first crusade was against Sicily, Southern Italy and England.
Examples
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Now the First Crusade had reached the great city of Antioch.
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The medieval crusades required immense mobilization of soldiers and resources over long time periods.
Academic text (2008) -
So I ask you again: Allow me to go on crusade to the Holy Land.
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We are the first warriors in your holy crusade.
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ANNE: Richard the Lionhearted began the Third Crusade from here.
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The Pope began the first crusade in 1095 at the Council of Claremont.
Blog text (26) -
The Liber Maiorichinus tells the story of a crusade against Muslim Majorca in 1113-15.
Academic text (1996) -
This crusade, one of the most massive and sweeping in history, was actually orchestrated by a secret brotherhood, the Priory of Sion and their military arm, the Knights Templar.
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Nicopolis (Bulgaria, 1396 A.D.): Turkish forces defeat a European crusade attempting to relieve Byzantium, which is beleaguered by the Ottomans.
Academic text (1999) -
The First Crusade aimed to reclaim Jerusalem from Muslim forces.
Compounds
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A military campaign by Western European Christians from 1096 to 1099 to capture Jerusalem, creating states ruled by Western Christians
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A military expedition from 1202 to 1204 that tried to take back Jerusalem but instead sacked Constantinople
A Crusade from 1218 to 1221 where European Christians tried to take Jerusalem by attacking Egypt but failed
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
A military expedition from 1189 to 1192 to try to retake Jerusalem from Muslim forces
A war led by King Louis IX in 1248–1249 to try to retake Jerusalem, ending in defeat
A Crusade in 1228 and 1229 when Emperor Frederick II got control of Jerusalem by talks not fighting
Surface Forms
Morphology
crusade = crus + ade
Although historically formed from a word meaning 'cross' + the suffix '-ade', the modern historical sense ('medieval military expedition') is a loanword-specific meaning that cannot be productively derived by a typical learner from the visible parts.
Etymology
Crusade comes from the Latin crux 'cross', because Christian soldiers in the Middle Ages wore a cross when they went on those military expeditions, so the word originally meant those religious wars.