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crusade
1706, respelling of
croisade
(1577), from M.Fr.
croisade,
Sp.
cruzada,
both from M.L.
cruciata,
pp. of
cruciare
"to mark with a cross," from L.
crux
(gen.
crucis
) "cross." Figurative sense of "campaign against a public evil" is from 1786.
