COMMANDERY

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.]

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [R.] Brougham.