(often capital) of, characteristic of, or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry
of or relating to masons or masonry
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I found a document releasing people convicted of first-degree murder so they could give a talk at a Masonic lodge or play chess at a high school tournament.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
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
Instead, it stages work in unlikely spaces: Masonic lodges, American Legions, women’s centers, but never traditional black box theaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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
He had quit my Aunt Mary’s by then and was working for the McCoy Publishing Company, a mail order business that supplied emblems, aprons, and books to the Masonic Order.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Upstairs is another one, The Most Expensive Galician Restaurant, decorated as a masonic clubhouse.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
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
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
When word got out the documentary was being made, there were tentative emails from BBC engineers and mixers - all of them bass players - almost a masonic underground of slap players who became involved.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2014
There is also a class of secret societies, based largely on masonic usages, that have for their principal object the payment of benefits in some form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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