Templar

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A Knight Templar.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of, pertaining to, or performed in a temple.
• noun [capitalized] A member of a military order, also called Knights Templars or Knight's of the Temple, from the early headquarters of the order in the Crusaders' palace at Jerusalem (the so-called temple of Solomon).
• noun A student of the law, or a lawyer, so called from having chambers in the Temple in London. See temple, 5.
• noun See knight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
• noun engraving A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.
• noun One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
• adjective rare Of or pertaining to a temple.

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• noun One of the Knights Templar

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• noun a knight of a religious military order established in 1118 to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher