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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI

AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI , a See also:

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret society formed about 1186 in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily to avenge popular wrongs . The society was finally suppressed by See also:

King See also:

William II., the See also:

Norman, who hanged the See also:

GRAND

grand See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and branded the members with hot irons .

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