Templary, n.
(ˈtɛmplərɪ)
Also 5 pl. -arijs.
[ad. med.L. templāri-us, Templar n.: see -ary1.]
† 1. = Templar n. 1. Obs.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 293 Þis pope.. dampned the ordre of Templaryes [ordinem Templariorum]. 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 177 He procured the distruccion of Templaries. c 1460 tr. Oseney Regr. 108 Þe templarijs. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 35 (an. 1249) The [holy] land..might soone be woon to Christendome, were it not for rebellious Templaries, with the Hospitalaries, and their followers. 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Templaries, certaine Christian souldiours dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem, whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came hither for deuotion. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Templaries, Knights of the Temple. |
† 2. An estate or benefice belonging to the Knights Templars. Obs. rare—1.
| 1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 564/1 Þe rentaillis of all bischoiprikis, abbacies, priorijs, provestries,..chaiplanries, templaries, and vtheris benefices. |
3. Templars collectively; Hist. the system or organization of the Templars; in 19th c., the Masonic and Temperance societies so called.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Oxford. (1662) ii. 329 The Holy Land, where thorough the Treachery of Templary, cowardize of the Greeks, diversity of the Climate, distance of the place, and differences betwixt Christian Princes, much time was spent,..many lives lost,..but little profit produced. 1859 Service for Encampments of Knights Templars 30 Any attempt..to make Masonry perfect without Templary, or on the other hand, to perpetuate an order of Templars independent of Freemasonry must only shew ignorance of the real history of both Societies. 1874, 1897 [see Good Templar]. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 2 Aug. 2/3 At Louisville [in 1901]..a colossal pageant descriptive of the history of Knight Templary from the time of the Crusades. |