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templar

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Tem⋅plar

[tem-pler]
–noun
1. a member of a religious military order founded by Crusaders in Jerusalem about 1118, and suppressed in 1312.
2. a barrister or other person occupying chambers in the Temple, London.
3. a member of the Masonic order, Knights Templars.
Also called Knight Templar.


Origin:
1250–1300; < ML templārius (see temple 1 , -ar 2 ); r. ME templer < AF (see -er 2 )
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Tem·plar   (těm'plər)   
n.  
  1. A Knight Templar.

  2. templar A lawyer or student of law having chambers in the Temple in London.


[Middle English templer, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin templārius, from Latin templum, temple; see temple1.]
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