military order

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military order (plural military orders)

  1. An order of knighthood which has a military (typically crusading) as well as a spiritual vocation.
    The Teutonic Knights, Knights Templars and St. John's Hospitallers are famous military orders which crusaded within Europe and/or in the Holy Land

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