[-ING2.] Engaging in a crusade; belonging to the crusades.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. xvii. The crusading sword of this misguided saint-errant.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., I. iv. 187. It [the Armada] was the last grand explosion of the ancient crusading chivalry.
1873. Tristram, Moab, iv. 66. The character of the architecture is Crusading.
