MILITES

milites

milites (mil-[schwa]-teez), n. 1. Roman law. Members of the military; soldiers. 2. Hist. Knights who are part of the royal army, by virtue of feudal tenure. “[Knights] are also called in our law milites, because they formed a part of the royal army, in virtue of their feodal tenures; one condition of which was, that

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