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noun
Commandery  n.  (pl. commanderies)  
1.
The office or rank of a commander. (Obs.)
2.
A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; called also a preceptory.
3.
An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. (U. S.)
4.
A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. (R.)





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"Commandery" Quotes from Famous Books



... W. James: "The Assault upon Fort Wagner," in War Papers read before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of ...
— Memories and Studies • William James
... no less remarkable. Las Casas complains that they could not repeat the Credo, nor the Ten Commandments. Their ignorance of the former would have been bliss, if they had been practically instructed in the latter. John Colmenero was one of these common soldiers who became installed in a Commandery (Encomienda). When the missionaries visited his plantation, they found that the laborers had not the slightest notions of Christianity. They examined John upon the subject, and discovered to their horror that he did ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various
... outward forms, according to the varying spirit of the age: sometimes they were freemasons, sometimes they were soldiers, sometimes artists, sometimes men of letters. But whether their external representation were a lodge, a commandery, a studio, or an academy, their inward purpose was ever the same; and that was to cherish the memory, and, if possible, to secure the restoration of the Roman Republic, and to expel from the Aryan settlement of Romulus the creeds and sovereignty of what they ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli


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