commandery
noun
the office or rank of a commander.
commanderies
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pluralof commandery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Reporting to Liu Bang’s central government were hundreds of local provincials called commanderies.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
I have spent half my life since I joined the Order in commanderies at home, and a dull life it was, and I was glad enough to resign my last command and come out here.
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He however candidly acknowledged, that the new order would be stronger than the old one, and so more zealous to combat the infidels, and that many commanderies might be suppressed, and some saving effected thereby.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
In the sixteenth century, we find the order of St. James, which had shot up to a pre-eminence above the rest, possessed of eighty-four commanderies, and two hundred inferior benefices.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott
Were it otherwise there could be no commanderies in this or any other country; we should have, on entering the Order, to abandon our nationality, and to form part of one community in the East.
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
