commandery

American  

[kuh-man-duh-ree, -mahn-] / kəˈmæn də ri, -ˈmɑn- /

noun

• commanderies
  plural

1. the office or rank of a commander.

2. the district of a commander.

3. a district controlled by a commander of certain medieval orders of knights.

4. a local branch or lodge of certain secret or fraternal orders.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• commanderies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of commandery

1400–50; late Middle English. See commander, -y ³

Example Sentences

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In 1595 the commandery of Venice was sold to the Patriarch and was converted into a diocesan seminary; and in 1637 the commandery of Utrecht was lost to the order.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

These receivers obtained the revenues from each estate or commandery within their district.

From Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 by Cohen, R.

A chapel belonging to a commandery of the Knights of St. John still stands near the church; it has been converted into a modern dwelling house.

From Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End by Holmes, Edric

This place is called "The temple of the false gods," and used to be, it is thought, a commandery of Templars.

From Over Strand and Field by Flaubert, Gustave

Indeed, I no longer wonder that you were appointed to the command of a galley, and received a rich commandery in England at the hands of the grand master himself.

From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Reporting to Liu Bang’s central government were hundreds of local provincials called commanderies.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Their possessions were divided into eight provinces with subdivisions of grand priories and commanderies, and the other administrative arrangements differed in little, except occasionally in name, from those of the Templars.

From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)

Also a volume of fifteenth century, containing the accounts of the commanderies.

From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Mayence, Frankfurt and Niederweisel were the three commanderies which most often required his personal attention.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew