单词 | commandery |
释义 | commanderycommandryn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > commendam commandery1536 commenda1598 commendo1598 commendum1598 commendam1607 commendatory1755 1536 Stat. 28 Hen. VIII. in R. Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 121 Appertayning to any Archbishopricke..Commaundry..or to any other benefice. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 400/1 in Chron. I Besides his Bishoprike, he helde in his hands the commaundary of the Abbey of Pettinweme. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 37 The Bishop of Meth..had a Proxie of 15s. 4d. payable yearly out of the Commandery of Kells. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. v. 16 They have a great number of rich Commanderies (fat Livings). 1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 171 In 1775, his uncle the Archbishop of Parlermo, bestowed on him a rich commandery. 2. a. esp. in Historical use. A landed estate or manor, or group of manors, belonging to an Order of Knights, and placed under the charge of a member of the order (with title of commendator, commander n. 3): see quot. 1858, which shows how this passed into 2b, the manors coming to be at length treated as prebends of the commanders, or of the local society of the order under them, to which also the name commandry is sometimes applied.Originally used in the Order of Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitallers, Knights of Rhodes, or of Malta), whose extensive possessions, extending over nearly all European countries, were divided first into priorates, these again into bailiwicks, and these into commendæ or commanderies; but also used in the Order of Teutonic Knights, etc.; the corresponding terms with the Knights Templars were preceptor and preceptory. The possessions of the Knights of St. John in England, to which all early quots. refer, were seized as crown-property in 1540. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land owned by institution, corporation, or class > specifically by an order of knights commandery1534 commendatory1586 Templary1592 commendam1601 commendum1630 society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > prebendary > of religio-military order commandery1534 commendatory1586 commendam1601 commendum1630 1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §24 Appoynted to the dignitie of the said prior of sanct Johns of Hierusalem in Englande, or to any commaundry apperteinyng vnto the same. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 24 The Kings Maiesty, his heires and Successors, shall haue and enioy all that Hospitall..being neere to the City of London..called the house of Saint Johns of Jerusalem in England, and all and singular..commandries, preceptories &c. which appertained..to the priours..within any the Kings Dominions. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Q2v/1 Commaundrie..was a..maner..belonging to the Priorie of S. Johns in Hierusalem in England. 1743–5 R. Pococke Trav. (1888) 53 Temple Newton, formerly a commanderie of the Knights Templars. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. v. 112 The Preceptories of the Templars, as well as the Commanderies of the Knights Hospitallers. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 317 Upon many of their manors and estates in the country the Knights Hospitallers placed small societies of their brethren under the government of a commander..Such societies were called Commanderies. 1858 W. Porter Hist. Knights Malta I. ii Eventually, a nomination to a commandery came to be considered in the light of a legal acquisition, subject only to the payment of a certain amount of annual tribute to the public treasury. b. In later use: A benefice or pension attached to a commandership of a knightly order. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > payment in consideration of past service > types of out-pension1711 commandery1721 state pension1745 flying pensionc1770 war pension1930 SERPS1983 eligible termination payment1984 1721 G. Roussillon tr. R. A. de Vertot Revol. Portugal 71 Dazled with the Prospect of the vast Sum which was offer'd, besides a Commandry of the Order of Christ. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 88 One privilege of the companions is, that they are preferred to other persons in the nomination to commanderies, each of which is worth five hundred guilders. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 397/2 The name of Commandery in the order of St. Louis was given to the pension which the king of France formerly assigned to twenty-four commanders of that order, of whom eight received 4000, and sixteen 3000 livres each. 1866 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic ii. i. 131. c. Also applied to a conventual priory of a non-military religious order. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > commander > [noun] > office of commandery1554 1554 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 8 §34 Sundry late Monasteries, Priories, Commandries, Nunneries..and other Religious and Ecclesiastical Houses and Places. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xii. 189 In their severall Covents and Commandries ouer all Europe. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) There are also Commandries for the Religious in the Orders of S. Bernard and S. Anthony. 1848 J. Grant Adventures Aide-de-camp xix The abbess, deeming her ‘commandery’ disgraced by our clatter..procured a guard of sbirri from the bishop of Cosenza. 1890 title Annals of the Hospital of S. Wulstan, or the Commandery, in the city of Worcester. d. Sometimes (like abbey, priory, etc.) applied to the buildings; in some cases, as at Worcester, the house continues to bear the name. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastic land > monastic estate > [noun] preceptory1508 commandery1712 1712 London Gaz. No. 5015/2 His Body was buried..in the Abby of St. John, which is a Commandry of the Order of Malta. 1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) II. 332 The Commandery here [i.e. at Worcester]..is a fine old House of Timber, in the Form of a Court. 1862 T. A. Trollope Lenten Journey xvii. 289 The building in question was once a commandery of the Templars. 1867 Murray's Handb. Worcest. 98 The Commandry..was rebuilt temp. Hen. VIII. e. Adopted as the name for a local branch or ‘lodge’ of a secret order, as the American order of so-called ‘Knights Templars’. 3. The position, or rank of a Commander in an order of Knighthood. (Sometimes including 2b.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > position of commander in an order commandership1611 commandery1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Commanderie, a commaunderie, or commaundership; the place or office of a Commaunder (of one of the Orders). 1800 Ld. Nelson 5 June in Dispatches & Lett. Sir Thomas Troubridge has a pension of £500 a-year settled on him, and Commandery of the order of St. Ferdinand. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > leading or commanding leadingc1400 governailc1425 magistration1490 conducting1517 manred1528 conduct1530 manrentc1540 conduction1551 commandment1592 command1594 commandery1598 captaincy1850 officering1890 society > authority > command > [noun] > one who has or exercises command > position of commandery1598 command1609 commandership1611 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. x. 153 To transferre the whole commaundery of the souldiers..vnto some one of his freed men. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 250 Both in Commandry and Castrametation. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 81 The usurpation of chiefe commandery. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > seignory seigniory1338 lordshipa1375 feec1400 señoria1534 commanderya1641 commendatory1762 feud1806 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of feudal lord seigniory1338 signoryc1515 district1611 lordship marcher1613 commot1628 commanderya1641 ligialty1651 distressa1658 seigneury1683 commendatory1762 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iv. 248 To goe about it instantly in their severall Commanderies of Jewry and Galile. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 104 The Seignories or Commanderies. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey 160 The Porte..divided the country into several small pashaliks and commanderies. ΚΠ 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 364 This was within the Letter of the [Spanish] King's Commanderie or Precept. 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