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▪ I. preceptory, n.|prɪˈsɛptərɪ|
[ad. med.L. præceptōria (domus?) in same sense; cf. obs. F. preceptoirie (1598 in Godef.), mod.F. préceptorerie: see next.]
A subordinate community of the Knights Templars, established on one of the provincial estates of the order; hence, the estate or manor supporting this, or the buildings in which it was housed. Corresponding to the commandery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
1540Act. 32 Hen. VIII, c. 24 Aduousons, commanderies, preceptories, contribucions, responsions, rentes..which appertained..to the priours. 1633Sc. Acts Chas. I (1817) V. 165/2 All templelands perteining to the preceptorie of Torphichen. 1661Wood Life 29 June (O.H.S.) I. 403 Sandford..a house and preceptory sometimes belonging to the Knights Templars. 1722Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) VII. 353 It was a Preceptory for the Kts of St. John's of Jerusalem. 1878R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. v. I. 321 The establishments of the order [Templars], which bore the name of preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, were at first seized by the King and other lords, but afterwards, by a bull from the Pope and an Act of Parliament, transferred to the rival order of the Hospitallers.
▪ II. preˈceptory, a. rare.
[ad. med.L. præceptōrius adj.: see preceptor and -ory2.]
Commanding, enjoining; = preceptive 1.
1573A. Anderson Exp. Benedictus 74 The other place..seemeth to sundrye to stande for a law preceptorie, as well to vs now, as to the Leuits then. 1882Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 142 There is nothing false about the law or preceptory part of Scripture. |