Also croizade. [f. prec. sb.] intr. To engage in a crusade, go on a crusade. Also to crusade it.
1732. M. Green, Grotto, 215. Cease crusading against sense.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, III. 40. He’s going to croizade it.
1765. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. xviii. When … you have crusaded it thro’ all their parish-churches.
1834. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., III. 111. Burning heretics at home, except when he was busy crusading abroad.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 955. ‘Duke, once your sires crusaded it, we know.’
