Comacineadj.n.

1899 ‘L. Scott’ Cathedral Builders 5 The origin of the name Comacine Masters has caused a great deal of argument amongst Italian writers new and old. Some think it merely a place-name referring to the island of Comacina, in Lake Lario or Como; others take a wider significance, and say it means not only the city of Como, but all the province, which was once a Roman colony of great extension. Others again, among whom is Grotius, suggest that it is not a place-name at all, but comes from the Teutonic word Gemachin or house-builders. As the Longobards afterwards called them in Italian Maestri Casarii, which means the same thing, there is perhaps something to be said for this hypothesis.

1899 ‘L. Scott’ Cathedral Builders 9 Rome is..full of remains of what is now styled Comacine architecture.

1900 Monthly Rev. 1 103 The Comacine masters have their existence sufficiently proved by..the edict of Rotharis (dated 653).

1900 Monthly Rev. 1 104 The collegiate and Comacine constitutions.

1899 ‘L. Scott’ Cathedral Builders 17 There is no certain proof that the Comacines were the veritable stock from which the pseudo-Freemasonry of the present day sprang.