Knight Templar Definition

knights-templar, knight-templar
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.
American Heritage
A member of a military and religious order established among the Crusaders about 1118
Webster's New World
A member of a certain order of Masons.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Knight Templar

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

    From Wiktionary

Knight Templar Sentence Examples

  • A Knight Templar uniform clearly identified the religious soldier on the battlefield.

  • Over his armor, a Knight Templar wore a white surcoat adorned with the red cross to let everyone know he was part of the Order of the Knight Templar.

  • The play, which is written in blank verse, is too obviously a continuation of Lessing's theological controversy to rank high as poetry, but the representatives of the three religions - the Mahommedan Saladin, the Jew Nathan and the Christian Knight Templar - are finely conceived, and show that Lessing's dramatic instinct had, in spite of other interests, not deserted him.

  • The chain-mail hauberk of a Knight Templar was long-sleeved with chain-mail hand coverings.

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