Commanderies

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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