commandery
Americannoun
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commanderies
plural
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the office or rank of a commander.
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the district of a commander.
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a district controlled by a commander of certain medieval orders of knights.
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a local branch or lodge of certain secret or fraternal orders.
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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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I am, save for my commandery and prospects in the Order, a penniless young knight, without home or estate, without even a place in my country, and that country not hers.
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Bred from pagedom in his Prussian commandery, he has never been exposed to the irritations that have fed the spirit of strife, and he will be thankful to lay it aside.
From The Dove in the Eagle's Nest by Charlotte Mary Yonge
In this village, which is on the direct road from London to Lincoln, there was a commandery, or associated body of Knights Templars, founded in the time of Richard I., by John le Mareshall.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Old and worn he retired to Majorca, living off the products of the estates belonging to his commandery situated in Catalonia.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas
Reporting to Liu Bang’s central government were hundreds of local provincials called commanderies.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Knights possessing commanderies throughout Europe would be no worse stewards for being married men, and scandals, such as contributed largely to the downfall of the Templars, would be avoided.
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
A. Three Knight Templars, hailing from three different commanderies, may, under the sanction of a charter or warrant from some regular Grand Encampment, form and open an Encampment for the dispatch of business.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan
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 D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
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