| 单词 | teutonic order |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTeutonic Order Teutonic Order n. A military order of German Knights (in medieval Latin Teutonicus Ordo Militaris, French l'Ordre Teutonique, German Deutsche Ritter, in 16th cent. Teutsche Herren), originally enrolled c1191 as the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary of Jerusalem, for service in the Holy Land.Their first seat was at Acre; after the fall of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, they settled at Marienburg on the Vistula, and carried on a crusade against the neighbouring heathen nations of Prussia, Livonia, etc. Their conquests made them a great sovereign power, but from the 15th cent. they rapidly declined, and were abolished in 1809. The order maintains a titular existence in Austria. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [noun] Knights Hospitallersc1330 orderc1330 white mantlesc1500 hospitalary1598 Templary Knights1617 Teutonic Order1617 Templarya1661 Teutonic1693 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Teutonic Order > [noun] white mantlesc1500 Teutonic Knights1617 Teutonic Order1617 Teutonic1693 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 128 The habite and robes of a Teuch-knight was a cloake or mantell of white, with a blacke crosse vpon the same.] 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 34 A house of old belonging to the Teutonike order of Knights. 1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iii. x. 151 Martin de Golin, Master of the Teutonick Order, was taken Prisoner by the Prusians, and delivered bound, to be beheaded. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Teutonick Order... The Order is now little known, tho' there is still a Great Master of it kept up. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 373 Maximilian wished to hold him in check, on the one side by the Grand Duke of Moscow, on the other by the Teutonic Order. < as lemmas |
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