Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an order of knights founded about 1118 to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and suppressed in 1312.
- noun A member of any of several modern fraternal orders named for the medieval Knights Templars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
commandery , n., 3, and alsoTemplar , n., 1 and 3.
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- noun A
knightly member of the crusader agemilitary order ofTemplars - noun A member of a York rite
masonic order
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who belongs to a Masonic order in the United States
- noun a knight of a religious military order established in 1118 to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Knight Templar was a De Clery, French ancestor of modern Scottish family Sinclair and he gave the description of a Shroud watched in an orthodox church in Constantinople.
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That a mass murderer might like to parade as a jihadi, a holy warrior or a Knight Templar does not make him one.
Open door: Keeping readers up to date as the facts become clearer 2011
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He teams with a Knight Templar named Marshall James Purefoy and they round up a group of other fighters - mercenaries, scoundrels and the like - to take and hold the castle at Rochester.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Ironclad Marshall Fine 2011
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A hotel called "The Crusader," with a two-story mosaic of a Knight Templar on the side?
The Wrong One Flew Anne Johnson 2009
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Eventually they may even be joined by Bill Clinton, if he decides to emulate his wife and his old Knight Templar by producing a memoir that ravages as well as ruminates.
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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Now that we are talking about locations again, I thought to bring up a project I get reminded of every now and then when reading about GOT: The Arn the Knight Templar movies from Sweden a big coproduction in fact, and the biggest filming project in Scandinavia ever.
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A hotel called "The Crusader," with a two-story mosaic of a Knight Templar on the side?
Archive 2009-03-01 Anne Johnson 2009
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Well I heard John Constantine sued Grant Morrison over his alcoholic, Knight Templar character, Willoughby Kipling, in the pages of Doom Patrol, which Constantine saw as an insulting parody of himself.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #140 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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In Walter Scott's book, the Knight Templar wanted Rebecca to submit to him, but she reclined to do so.
I heart Jason Giambi boomuse 2007
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There is a rock carving of a Knight Templar in Westford, MA, confirmed by Archeologists as being from 100 years before Columbus.
catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2006
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