The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commandery \Com*mand"er*y\, n.; pl. Commanderies. [F. commanderie.]
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.]
--Brougham.
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n. (plural of commandery English)
Usage examples of "commanderies".
We were talking about the rank and file, but from the beginning the order received huge donations and little by little set up commanderies throughout Europe.
But no, the Templars went on drinking and blaspheming in their commanderies, seemingly unaware of the danger.
Suppose the Templars had a plan to conquer the world, and they knew the secret of an immense source of power, a secret whose preservation was worth the sacrifice of the whole Temple quarter in Paris, and of the commanderies scattered throughout the kingdom, also in Spain, Portugal, England, and Italy, the castles in the Holy Land, the monetary wealth— everything.
Picture the situation of the Templars, first in Jerusalem, then in their commanderies in Europe.
And in the European commanderies, the Jews were considered usurers, were despised, people to be exploited, not trusted.
The rabbis of Jerusalem sense that something happened between the Templars and the Assassins, and the rabbis of Spain, snooping around under the pretense of lending money at interest to the European commanderies, get a whiff of something.
One of the largest commanderies in the Pyrénées had crowned a nearby promontory.
They, not daring to give him an asylum in their island so near to Asia, sent him to France, where they had him carefully guarded in one of their commanderies, in spite of the urgency of Cait Bey, Sultan of Egypt, who, having revolted against Bajazet, desired to have the young prince in his army to give his rebellion the appearance of legitimate warfare.
Which is an odd thing to call a world but the Ringers who settled worlds like that, worlds away and away from the empires and the commanderies and the commensalities, away away from the traderoads and the sweeplines, those Flingers were without doubt the oddest folk a sun ever shone on.