crusadel (krosad)

[Early mod. E. also crusado, croisade, croisado, croysado, earlier cruci ade, late ME. cruciate, cruciat (being variously accom. to the ML., Sp., or F.); = F. croi = sade (after Pr.), OF. croisée (also in another form croiserie ) = Pr. crosada, crozada Sp. Pg. cruzada = It. croci at a, For the crusade preached through western christen dom, A. D. 1188, it was ordained that the English should wear a white cro ; the French a red; the Flemish a green one. Quoted in Rock's Church of our Fathers, III. i. 446, note. The Crusades, with all their drawbacks, were the trial feat of a new world, a reconstituted Christen dom, striving after a better ideal than that of piracy and fraternal bloodshed. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 222. 2. Any vigorous concerted action for the defense or advancement of an idea or a cause, or in opposition to a public evil: as, a temperance crusade; the crusade against slavery. The unwearied, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous acts recorded in the history of nations. Lecky , Europ. Morals, I. 161. crusadel (krö-sād′), v . i .; pret. and pp. crusaded , 1376 Some grey crusading knight. M. Arnold. As in the East, so in the West, the crusading spirit was kept alive and made aggre ive by the monks and the knights. Stillé , Stud. Med. Hist., p. 354. crusadolł (krö-zāʼdō), n. [Also cruzado; a var., after Sp. Pg. cruzada (fem.), of crusade: see crusadel.] 1. A crusade. If you suppose it [the style of architecture] imported into that kingdom by those that returned from the crus a does , we must of course set it down as an eastern invention. H. Swinburne , Travels through Spain, xliv. crusoile Lord, rise, and rouse, and rule, and crush their furious pride. Quarles, Emblems, i. 15. These Disorders might have been crusht, if Captain Swan had used his Authority to Suppre them. Dampier, Voyages, I. 371. Scott . Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. On April 16, 1746, the battle of Culloden forever crushed the prospects of the Stuarts. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iii. 5. To oppre grievously. Thou shalt be only oppre ed and crushed alway. 2. A bull i ued by the pope urging a crusade, 6. To crowd or pre upon. promising immediate entrance into heaven to those who died in the service, and many indulgences to those who survived. Pope Sixtus quint us for the setting forth of the foresaid expedition... published a Cruzado , with most ample indulgences which were printed in great numbers. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 594.