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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Templar \Tem"plar\, a. Of or pertaining to a temple. [R.]
Solitary, family, and templar devotion.
--Coleridge.
Templar \Tem"plar\, n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See Temple a church.]
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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.
Note: The order was first limited in numbers, and its members were bound by vows of chastity and poverty. After the conquest of Palestine by the Saracens, the Templars spread over Europe, and, by reason of their reputation for valor and piety, they were enriched by numerous donations of money and lands. The extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 131
2. 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. [Eng.]
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Anglo-French templer, Old French templier (c.1200), from Medieval Latin templaris (mid-12c.), member of the medieval religious/military order known as Knights Templars (c.1118-1312), so called because they had headquarters in a building near Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (see temple (n.1)). Their distinguishing garb was a white mantle with a red cross.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) Of or relating to a temple. n. (context legal British English) A barrister having chambers in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20Temple or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20Temple
WordNet
Wikipedia
Templar may refer to:
- Knights Templar, medieval Christian military order very prominent in the Crusades
- Templers (religious believers), German religious group who settled in Palestine
- The Templars (band), an American musical group formed in 1991
- Templar Studios, video game design studio based in New York City, formed in 1997
- Templar automobile, U.S. manufacturer of automobiles in the 1920s
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, a Royal Navy submarine
- Templar, genus of harvestmen (Arachnida) in the family Monoscutidae
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Templar Channel, British Columbia, Canada, named for:
- the yacht Templar of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, which circumnavigated Vancouver Island in 1861
- Henry George Templar (1904-1988), American politician, attorney and federal judge
- Templar Saxe (1865-1935), British-born actor and opera singer
In fiction:
- Simon Templar, fictional character in the 1928-1997 series of books, and other media, also called The Saint
- Templars (Hyperion Cantos), religious and political movement in Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos
- Templar, a minor DC Comics superhero who led the third version of The Conglomerate
- Templar, a country in the Japanese anime Kiba''
- "High" and "Dark" Templars, units of the Protoss race in the RTS game StarCraft
- "Templars" or "Abstergo Industries", the main antagonists of the Assassin's Creed video game series
- Templars of The "Templar Order", a military order in the Dragon Age video game series
Templar were a Canadian alternative rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, most noted for garnering a Juno Award nomination for Best New Group at the Juno Awards of 2001.
The band was formed in 1998 by vocalist Murray Yates and guitarist Will C., and fused hard rock and electronica influences in a manner commonly compared by critics to Econoline Crush. The band took its name from Simon Templar, the lead character in the crime novel and film series The Saint. They released their debut album, Under the Sun, on EMI Records in 2000; the album featured the singles "The Need" and "Here We Go".
Due to creative tensions, the band broke up in late 2001 while working on their second album. Yates went on to form Forty Foot Echo.
Usage examples of "templar".
According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.
Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.
Well, the Church of Aenea has grown here until at least a fourth of our population would give up their Ouster or Templar heritage and become Aenean in a second.
For if they were, as we and other researchers believe, collectors of esoteric and alchemical knowledge, then any Templar survival points to some kind of continuation of great secrets through an occult tradition that may still exist to this day.
Order was transformed into a Strict Templar Observance Masonic Lodge, although it still maintained its alchemical nature.
Templar disliked Bittle enough to seize a convenient opportunity of dotting the millionaire one with a hefty bit of bronze.
Only templars can leave corpses at the boneyard without paying the knacker at the gate.
Templars under a veil, and therefore the Degree was proscribed, and, ceasing to be worked, became a mere brief and formal ceremony, under another name.
Moreover, the Templars were in general uneducated, and capable only of wielding the sword, with no qualifications for governing, and at need enchaining, that queen of the world called Opinion.
Baron von Hund possessed a list of what he claimed were the names of the Grand Masters who succeeded Jacques de Molay in the underground Templar movement after the suppression.
The outcome was a humiliation for Baron von Hund, who came to argue the Templar case, and it was effectively the end of the Strict Templar Observance.
Although von Hund was initiated in Paris and first began promoting his new system in France, the Strict Templar Observance had its greatest initial success in his native Germany, where it was known at first as the Brethren of St John the Baptist.
Despite the Celtic elements in the Grail stories, Waite sees their Johannite influence as originating from the Middle East, via the Templars.
Their instrument was to be the Knights Templar, and Hugues de Payens and the other founding knights were, in fact, Johannite initiates.
The Templars appeared to know of the existence of the Johannite tradition before they found it, but how they learned of it no-one can say.