sb. pl. Obs. [a. F. croisés, in OF. croisiés:—L. cruciātōs, f. croisier: see CROISE v. 2.] Those who have been ‘croised,’ crusaders. (App. sometimes used by modern writers as an archaism for Crusades, and supplied with erroneous singular croise.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Croises (cruce signati), pilgrims. See Croysado.
c. 1750. Shenstone, Ruined Abbey, 248. How oft he blew The croise’s trumpet.
1751. Jortin, Eccl. Hist. (1805), III. 332 (R.). To instruct the croisez, to comfort them.
1779. Archæol., V. 19 (D.). When the English Croisees went into the East in the first Crusade.
1846. P. Parley’s Ann., VII. 18. The wars of the croises.
