Crusaders – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
crusader
n.
one who fights in a crusade, one who joins a medieval military expedition to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims; one who campaigns for the advancement of a cause
Crusades
The
Crusades were a series of intermittent military campaigns sanctioned by various
Popes in the
Middle Ages, from 1096 to 1487. In 1095, Byzantine Emperor
Alexios I sent an ambassador from
Constantinople to
Pope Urban II in Italy requesting military support in the conflict with the eastward invading
Turks. The Pope responded promptly by calling Catholic soldiers to join the
First Crusade. The immediate goal was to guarantee pilgrims access to the holy sites in the
Holy Land that were under Muslim control. His long-range goal was to reunite the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom after
their split in 1054, with the pope as head of the united Church. A complex 200-year struggle ensued.
crusader
Noun
1. a disputant who advocates reform
(synonym) reformer, reformist, meliorist
(hypernym) disputant, controversialist, eristic
(hyponym) abolitionist, emancipationist
(derivation) crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate
2. a warrior who engages in a holy war; "the crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims"
(hypernym) warrior
(derivation) crusade
crusader
n.
bojovník, bojovnice; křižák
crusader
Rzecz.
krzyżowiec
