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▸ noun: Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
▸ noun: (politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
▸ noun: (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To go on a military crusade.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
▸ noun: Any 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.
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