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Definition of Commanderies
Commanderies Commandery Com*mand"er*y, n.; pl. Commanderies. [F.
commanderie.]
1. The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.]
2. 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. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among
the Freemasons. [U. S.]
4. A district under the administration of a military
commander or governor. [R.] --Brougham.