military order
military order military order. (a) a command proceeding from a military superior. (b) an association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the middle ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction... see military | ||||
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Military order
A military order is a Christian order of knighthood that is founded for crusading, i.e. propagating and/or defending the faith (originally Catholic, or Orthodox, after the reformation sometimes Protestant), either in the Holy Land or against Islam (Reconquista) or pagans (mainly Baltic region) in Europe, but many become secularized later.
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