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Dictionary Results for preceptory:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Preceptory \Pre*cep"to*ry\ (?; 277), a.
   Preceptive. "A law preceptory." --Anderson (1573).
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Preceptory \Pre*cep"to*ry\, n.; pl. Preceptories. [LL.
   praeceptoria an estate assigned to a preceptor, from L.
   praeceptor a commander, ruler, teacher, in LL., procurator,
   administrator among the Knights Templars. See Preceptor.]
   A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the
   temple or principal house of the order in London. See
   Commandery, n., 2.
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