COMMANDERY

Com‐mand″er‐y (?), n.; pl. Commanderies (#). [[F. commanderie.]] 1. 1. The office or rank of a commander.
2. 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. 3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
4. 4. A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. Brougham.