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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.)

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"Commandery" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the action of the Eleventh Ohio Battery at battles of Iuka, September 19, 1862, and Corinth, October 4, 1862, appeared in the columns of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press in 1884. Having been preserved by a Companion of the Ohio Commandery, it was read by the Recorder, Major Thrall, at the Commandery monthly meeting of October 6, 1909, as the Recorder's contribution to the discussion of an account of the part of the Eleventh Ohio in those battles, ...

— A Battery at Close Quarters - A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, - October 6, 1909 • Henry M. Neil

... immediately entered, to engage a lodging beneath its humble sign, "The Plough," for the few clays of his intended visit to Lady Tinemouth. A boy had been his guide, and bearer of his small travelling bag, from the famous old Commandery inn, the "Angel," at Grantham, where the Wold diligence had set him down in the afternoon at the top of the market-place of that memorable town of ancient chivalry, to find his way up to the occasional rural palace cells on Harrowby Hill, of the same doughty and luxurious knights who were ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter