different between crucify vs crusade

English

Etymology

From Middle English crucifien, from Old French crucefier, from Late Latin crucific?re, from Latin crucif?gere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?s?fa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

crucify (third-person singular simple present crucifies, present participle crucifying, simple past and past participle crucified)

1. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
2. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
   • 1896 July 9, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech:

     Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

   • 1992, Tori Amos, Crucify (song)

     I crucify myself and nothing I do is good enough for you.

3. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

Derived terms

• decrucify

Related terms

• cross
• crucifix
• crucifixion
• crucifixional
• crux

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• (medieval history): Crusade

Etymology

From French croisade, introduced in English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruci?ta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruci?tus used as an abstract noun.

Adjectival cruci?tus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade".

Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruci?ta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?u??se?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

crusade (plural crusades)

1. (historical) Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.

   During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.

2. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
3. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   a crusade against drug abuse

4. (politics, Protestantism, dated) A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
5. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

Derived terms

• crusader

Related terms

Translations

Verb

crusade (third-person singular simple present crusades, present participle crusading, simple past and past participle crusaded)

1. (intransitive) To go on a military crusade.
2. (intransitive) To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

   He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

Translations

See also

• holy war
• jihad

References

• AskOxford.com

Further reading

• crusade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crusade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crusade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary