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commandery - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'commandery' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Commandery [ n.]
- The office or rank of a commander.
- 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.
- A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.