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Commandery [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. COMMANDERY ,

2. COMMANDINGLY, adverb In a commanding manner.

Commandery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The office or rank of a commander.

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.

4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.