Hypertext Webster Gateway: "preceptory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Preceptory \Pre*cep"to*ry\ (?; 277), a.
Preceptive. ``A law preceptory.'' --Anderson (1573).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Commandery \Com*mand"er*y\, n.; pl. {Commanderies}. [F.
commanderie.]
1. The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.]
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. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among
the Freemasons. [U. S.]
4. A district under the administration of a military
commander or governor. [R.] --Brougham.
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