† croisee, -ie, -y Obs.
Also 5 croysee, -ye, 6 -ie, croisey, crosey.
[a. OF. croisée, -iée, -ie, the native French form = med.L. cruciāta, It. crociata, Sp. cruzada, Pr. crozada, which was in the 16th c. displaced by croisade, with the adapted ending -ade from the southern langs.]
A crusade.
| 1482 Caxton Polycron. viii. v, Syre Henry spencer bisshop of norwiche wente..with a Croysye in to Flaundres. Ibid. viii. xi, The pope gaf oute a croysye ageynst them [Hussites]. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxvii. (heading), Other kynges toke on them the Croisey to the holy lande. 1549 Thomas Hist. Italie 124 Manfredo lette crie a Croysie. 1608 Golding Epit. Frossard i. 37 The Pope..commaunded a croysie to be preached against them. 1615 W. Hull Mirr. Maiestie 69 At the sute of them that were marked for the Croyssie. |