Masonic
adjective
pertaining to or characteristic of Freemasons or Freemasonry.
Masonic
American
[muh-son-ik]
/ məˈsɒn ɪk /
adjective
masonic
British
/ məˈsɒnɪk /
adjective
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(often capital) of, characteristic of, or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry
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of or relating to masons or masonry
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Masonic
Example Sentences
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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
In her teens, the aspiring actress enjoyed writing comic monologues - performing them as part of the after-dinner entertainment at local Masonic lodges.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
Many drowning patients that need resuscitation do not survive, says Jeff Louie, a pediatric emergency physician at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital in Minnesota, where Olsen also works as the trauma program manager.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2024
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
Dr Grant uncovered the masonic link while researching her book Auld Lang Syne: A Song And Its Culture, which explores how its popularity spread around the world.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2021
But in 1923, the settlement was a small and prosperous predominantly black town, with its own baseball team, a masonic temple and a few hundred residents.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2016
The idea that it would require an investigator to be a member of the “mystic tie” in order to qualify as a reader of masonic history has been exploded.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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