COMMANDERY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Commandery

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Commandery n. (pl. commanderies)

The office or rank of a commander. (Obs.)

A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; called also a preceptory.

An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. (U. S.)

A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. (R.)

See images of 'Commandery'

Etymology of 'Commandery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Commandery" Quotes from Famous Books

... by the Rhine, while the stout city wall secured its convex curve. Of this wall the eastern horn was St. Alban's Gate; its north-west was St. John's Gate (St. Johann Thor); beside which stood the decaying Commandery of the Knights of Malta, which had contributed a large sum toward the expanded wall, in order to be included within it. And just as these spots still mark the horns of the old crescent, the Spalen Thor shows where it had ...

— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... own house; but a few years after his decease, his remains were removed to the church of a Commandery of St. Antoine at Bordeaux, where they still continue. His monument was restored in 1803 by a descendant. It was seen about 1858 by an English traveller (Mr. St. John).'—["Montaigne the Essayist," by Bayle St. John, 1858, 2 vols. 8vo, is one of most delightful books ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... W. James: "The Assault upon Fort Wagner," in War Papers read before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of ...

— Memories and Studies • William James

... the 61st's fight at Glendale is taken from the Portland Daily Press. It is the narration of a leading actor in the battle, and was given at the annual meeting of the Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion held at Riverton, May ...

— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller

... outward forms, according to the varying spirit of the age: sometimes they were freemasons, sometimes they were soldiers, sometimes artists, sometimes men of letters. But whether their external representation were a lodge, a commandery, a studio, or an academy, their inward purpose was ever the same; and that was to cherish the memory, and, if possible, to secure the restoration of the Roman Republic, and to expel from the Aryan settlement of Romulus the creeds and sovereignty of what they ...

— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli