(often capital) of, characteristic of, or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry
of or relating to masons or masonry
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Locals give directions to out-of-towners using churches as landmarks, and a Masonic lodge was promoting a squirrel hunt one recent day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The research was carried out by scientists in the UCL Faculties of Life Sciences and Brain Sciences, with support from the Cambridge Trust, Wellcome, and the Masonic Charitable Foundation.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
"However, there is no pressing need for immediate interim relief at this stage, given that some 300 officers and staff have already declared their involvement in Masonic and other hierarchical associations."
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
City Council, said Kimmel was a major advocate for renovation of the old Masonic lodge and other revitalization Hollywood projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2025
Newspapers launched crusades against pestilent alleys and excess smoke and identified the worst offenders in print—among them Burnham’s newly opened Masonic Temple, which the Chicago Tribune likened to Mount Vesuvius.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The material left for posterity in 1887 turned out to be mostly routine — a Bible, an almanac, a masonic trinket along with Confederate bank notes and a genealogy of the Lee family.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022
Dupart was active in the social, political and masonic organizations that were part of the fabric of New Orleans society.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
By 1924, Ward had a fundraising company and was advertising how much it had raised for everything from boy scouts to masonic temples.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2019
She told him her friend Jerry Holder had something he might be interested in: The masonic ring that had belonged to his brother-in-law, Detective Paul Bentley, who died in 2008.
From Time ● May 21, 2015
Fray Eduardo Navarro, Procurator of the Augustinians, and Ysabelo de los Reyes, an Ilocano, and author of some notable works, agree that the first masonic lodge of the Philippines was founded in Cavite about 1860.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
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