templar

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The templar is, generally speaking, a prig, so is the abbe: both are distinguished by an air of petulance and self-conceit, which holds a middle rank betwixt the insolence of a first-rate buck and the learned pride of a supercilious pedant.

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  1. [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). The order was founded at Jerusalem about 1118, and was confirmed by the Pope ill 1128. Its special aim was protection to pilgrims on the way to the holy shrines, and the distinguishing garb of the knights was a white mantle with a red cross. The order took a leading part in the conduct of the Crusades, and spread rapidly, acquiring great wealth and influence in Spain. France, England, and other countries in Europe. Its chief seats in the East were Jerusalem, Acre, and Cyprus, and its European headquarters was a foundation called the Temple, then just outside of Paris. The members were composed of knights, men-at-arms, and chaplains; they were grouped in commanderies, with a preceptor at the head of each province, and a grand master at the head of the order. The Templars were accused of heresy, immorality, and other offenses by Philip IV. of France in 1307, and the order was suppressed by the Council of Vienne in 1312. In that Temple duellen the Knyghtes of the Temple, that weren wont to be clept Templeres; and that was the foundacioun of here Ordre. Mandeville, Travels, p. 88.
  2. A student of the law, or a lawyer, so called from having chambers in the Temple in London. See temple, 5. The reader cannot but observe what pains I have been at in polishing the style of my book to the greatest exactness: nor have I been less diligent in refining the orthography by spelling the words in the very same manner as they are pronounced by the chief patterns of politeness at court, at levees, at assemblies, at play-houses, at the prime visiting places, by young templers, and by gentlemen-commoners of both universities, who have lived at least a twelvemonth in town, and kept the best company. Swift, Polite Conversation, Int. The Whigs answered that it was idle to apply ordinary rules to a country in a state of revolution; that the great question now depending was not to be decided by the saws of pedantic Templars. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., x.
  3. Good Templar a member of the Society of Good Templars, organized for the promotion of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks, and modeled in some respects upon the system of freemasonry.
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  • The steward in the rear whispered the young templar, "That is true to my knowledge." —  Isaac Bickerstaff
  • A templar was chosen to be his almoner, that he might carry to the king the complaints of the poor which could not come to his own ears, and distribute among the needy a tenth of all the food and drink that came into the house of the king. —  Henry the Second
  • We have pleasant views of him in this learned and half-cloistered retreat of wit and lawyers and legal students, in the reminiscences of Judge Day of the Irish Bench, who in his advanced age delighted to recall the days of his youth, when he was a templar, and to speak of the kindness with which he and his fellow-student, Grattan, were treated by the poet. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Places You Can't Get to on Your Own Requiem online templar skills from other sites and post a list here. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Construct your army from a plethora of creatures including the magnificent dragon, mighty warrior, evil necromancer and holy templar. —  The game retail industry according to MCV
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  1. Formerly also templer; from Middle English templere = Dutch tempelier = German templer, from Old French (and F.) templier = Provencal templier = Spanish Portuguese templario = Italian tempiere, from Middle Latin templarius, a templar, properly adjective, from Latin templum, a temple: see temple.
  2. from Late Latin templaris, of or pertaining to a temple, from Latin templum, temple: see temple.
 

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