Crescentade. World English Historical Dictionary

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[f. CRESCENT sb. 3 c + -ADE, after crusade.] properly, A religious war waged under the Turkish flag; rhetorically, a jihād or holy war for Islam.

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1868.  G. Duff, Pol. Surv., 65. The further advance of the White Czar may yet be met by a crescentade, preached from the Caspian far away into the least known regions of China.

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1884.  Standard, 14 Nov., 5/4. He would then lead a crescentade to drive the English out of Egypt.

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1888.  M. MacColl, in Contemp. Rev., April, 541. This reactionary crescentade against every attempt at intellectual or moral progress beyond the Koran.

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  Hence Crescentader.

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1880.  Blackw. Mag., March, 368. Carried on a litter in rear of his crescentaders.

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