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Dispute is a related term of crusade.


As a verb dispute

is .

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.

dispute

Noun

(en noun)
  • An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.
  • Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
  • * Milton
  • Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute .
  • Contest; struggle; quarrel.
  • (Defoe)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (disput)
  • To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
  • To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
  • Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.
  • To oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of.
  • to dispute assertions or arguments
  • * Bancroft
  • to seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance
  • To strive or contend about; to contest.
  • * Prescott
  • to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards
  • (obsolete) To struggle against; to resist.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Dispute it [grief] like a man.

    Derived terms

    * industrial dispute

    crusade

    English

    Alternative forms

    (medieval history) (Crusade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
  • a crusade against drug abuse
  • (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
  • Derived terms

    * crusader

    References

    * AskOxford.com

    See also

    * holy war * jihad * Miles Christi

    Verb

    (crusad)
  • To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
  • He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.