Found 1 items, similar to preceptory.
English → English (gcide) Definition: preceptory Commandery \Com*mand"er*y\, n.; pl. Commanderies. [F. commanderie.] 1. The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] 4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [R.] --Brougham. [1913 Webster]