Definitions for commanderies

commanderies com·mand·er·y

Spelling: [kuh-man-duh-ree, -mahn-]
IPA: /kəˈmæn də ri, -ˈmɑn-/

Commanderies is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

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Definitions for commanderies

noun

  1. the office or rank of a commander.
  2. the district of a commander.
  3. a district controlled by a commander of certain medieval orders of knights.
  4. a local branch or lodge of certain secret or fraternal orders.

Origin of commanderies

1400-50; late Middle English. See commander, -y3

Examples for commanderies

The commanderies of the Teutonic order, and of that of Malta, at forty per cent.

Also a volume of fifteenth century, containing the accounts of the commanderies.

On his death she bestowed all his titles and possessions on his son, together with the commanderies given him by Joseph the Ist.

The commanderies have not responded to our call for aid as they should have done.

Nothing now remains of the extensive possessions of the Templars, or the Knights of Malta, who both had commanderies here.

The commanderies of chivalry, two hundred at least in number, were likewise enormously profitable.

These four commanderies were outlying portions of Bern, and were entirely under the rule of its Council.

But, in consequence of its recapture by the Araucanians, they reaped very little advantage from their commanderies.

The lands of these ballivi conventuali of languages were divided into three classes, priories, balliages, and commanderies.

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