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Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
(figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
(archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a proper noun crusade
is one of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the holy land from the muslims who occupied it.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.crusade
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Alternative forms
(medieval history) (Crusade)Noun
(en noun)- During the crusades , many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
- a crusade against drug abuse
Derived terms
* crusaderReferences
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See also
* holy war * jihad * Miles ChristiVerb
(crusad)- He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.
External links
* *false
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}