=Teutonic Knights= (_The_), an order organized by Frederick, duke of Suabia, in Palestine (1190). St. Louis gave them permission to quarter on their arms the _fleur de lis_ (1250). The order was abolished, in 1809, by Napoleon I. =Tewksburys= (_The_), “Society” couple, always bickering, and always making up, inveighing against the boredom of society duties, yet bent upon complying with every by-law, and sacrificing time and happiness to their idol.--Philip Henry Welch, _The Tailor-Made Girl_ (1888). =Texartis=, a Scythian soldier, killed by the Countess Brenhilda.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). =Tezoz´omoc=, chief of the priests of the Az´tecas. He fasted ten months to know how to appease the national gods, and then declared that the only way was to offer “the White Strangers” on their altars. Tezozomoc was killed by burning lava from a volcanic mountain. Tezozomoc Beholds the judgment ... and sees The lava floods beneath him. His hour Is come. The fiery shower, descending, heaps Red ashes round. They fall like drifted snows, And bury and consume the accursed priest. Southey, _Madoc_, ii. 26 (1805). =Thaddeus of Warsaw=, the hero and title of a novel by Jane Porter (1803.) =Thaddu=, the father of Morna, who became the wife of Comhal and the mother of Fingal.--Ossian. =Tha´is= (2 _syl._), an Athenian courtezan, who induced Alexander, in his cups, to set fire to the palace of the Persian kings at Persepŏlis. The king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thaïs led the way to light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. Dryden, _Alexanders Feast_ (1697). =Thaïs´a=, daughter of Simon´idês, king of Pentap´olis. She married Periclês, prince of Tyre. In her voyage to Tyre Thaïsa gave birth to a daughter, and dying, as it was supposed, in childbirth, was cast into the sea. The chest in which she was placed drifted to Ephesus, and fell into the hands of Cer´imon, a physician, who soon discovered that she was not dead. Under proper care, she entirely recovered, and became a priestess in the temple of Diana. Periclês, with his daughter and her betrothed husband, visiting the shrine of Diana, became known to each other, and the whole mystery was cleared up.--Shakespeare, _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_ (1608).