Crusade

Meaning

Noun

• One of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

Origin

• Capitalised by Mills, The History of the Crusades (1820) when referring to a specific campaign ("The third and fourth Crusades" p. 95) but not when
• referring to the general concept ("the clergy successfully preached the crusade through all the German state" p. 87). More at crusade.