crusadingn.
The action of crusade v. Also attributive, passing into adj.
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society > faith > worship > crusade > [noun] > engaging in
crusading1837
1732 [implied in: M. Green Grotto 215 Cease crusading against sense. (at crusade v.)].
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 17 Not since our Albigenses and Crusadings were over.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. v. 509 Provençal poetry..contains some noble bursts of the Crusading religious sentiment.
1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. v. 50 One of those unfortunate captives of crusading wars.
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crusadingadj.
Engaging in a crusade; belonging to the crusades.
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crusading1760
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. xvii. 140 The crusading sword of this misguided saint-errant.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 187 The ancient crusading chivalry.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab iv. 66 The character of the architecture is Crusading.
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n.1732adj.1760- to do one's worst
- to do oneself a bit of no good
- to do oneself in a person's mercy
- to do oneself justice
- to do oneself to a person's mercy
- to do or be…gladly
- to do or die
- to do or have diligence
- to do or make a blenk or blench
- to do or make cost
- to do or make costs
- to do or make deray to
- to do or make gree
- to do or make ligeance
- to do or make one's ligeance
- to do or make the cost
- to do or make the costs
- to do or pay one's devoir
- to do or pay one's devoirs (to some one
- to do or perform wonders
- to do or put up, to let down hair
- to do or put up, to let down one's hair
- to do or work wough
- to do out
- to do out of