Knight Templar

English

Etymology

knight + Templar (ultimately from Latin templum (temple), notably the Temple Mount in Jerusalem)

Noun

Knight Templar (plural Knight Templars or Knights Templar)

  1. (historical) A knightly member of the crusader age military order of Templars [from 1610]
    • 1610, William Camden, translated by Philemon Holland, Britain, London: George Bishop, page 427:
      Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem consecrated a Church for Knights Templars [Latin original: Heraclius patriarcha Hierosolymitanus ecclesiam militibus Templariis consecravit]
  2. A member of a York rite masonic order

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