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Commandery   Listen
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



... protected by the Rhine, while the stout city wall secured its convex curve. Of this wall the eastern horn was St. Alban's Gate; its north-west was St. John's Gate (St. Johann Thor); beside which stood the decaying Commandery of the Knights of Malta, which had contributed a large sum toward the expanded wall, in order to be included within it. And just as these spots still mark the horns of the old crescent, the Spalen Thor shows where it had its greatest depth, ...
— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue
... rewarded for his distinguished services by being appointed to the office of corregidore of the cities of Serena Mendoza and St Juan, the two last in the province of Cujo; in which province he had likewise the grant of a considerable commandery of Indians, which he afterwards ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 • Robert Kerr
... human life I should have the advantage of her prayers for my success. As a preliminary measure looking to my security in case of detection I made an application for membership in that powerful order, the Knights of Murder, and in due course was received as a member of the Ghost Rock commandery. On the day that my probation ended I was for the first time permitted to inspect the records of the order and learn who belonged to it—all the rites of initiation having been conducted in masks. Fancy my delight when, ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce


Words linked to "Commandery" :   position, place, berth, billet, post, commandership, spot


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