| 单词 | grand lodge | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrand lodge   grand lodge  n. see lodge n. 7. grand lodge  7.  Among Freemasons and some other societies: The place of meeting for members of a branch; hence, the members composing a branch; also, a meeting of a ‘lodge’ of freemasons, etc.  grand lodge, the principal or governing body of the freemasons (and of some other societies), presided over by the grand-master. For Orange lodge see Orange n.2 ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > 			[noun]		 > affiliation > an affiliation or branch > members of or place of meeting lodge1686 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > 			[noun]		 > the Freemasons > governing body grand lodge1742 1686    R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 316  				Into which Society when any are admitted, they call a meeting (or Lodg as they term it in some places) which must consist at lest of 5 or 6 of the Ancients of the Order. 1733    J. Bramston Man of Taste 196  				Next Lodge I'll be Free-Mason. 1742    in  W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 525  				They..are to guard the Lodge, with a drawn Sword. 1753    Scots Mag. Sept. 427/1  				A body of gentlemen masons belonging to foreign lodges. 1797    Encycl. Brit. X. 625/1  				It was this year [1720] agreed, that, for the future, the new grand-master shall be named and proposed to the grand lodge some time before the feast. 1813    Gen. Hist. in  Ann. Reg. 93  				Provisions were made for establishing district lodges [of Orangemen]: and..the masters of all regimental lodges were to make half-yearly returns..to the secretary of the grand lodge; and in these military lodges.. officers and privates were to meet on terms of equality. 1846    D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle viii. 26  				I suppose you'll be going to what you call your Lodge every night, now? 1866    J. R. Lowell Seward-Johnson Reaction in  Pr. Wks. 		(1898)	 V. 318  				Now joining a Know-Nothing ‘lodge’, now hanging on the outskirts of a Fenian ‘circle’. 1900    Mackenzie's Guide Inverness 46  				The head-quarters of a lodge of Good Templars. 1969    in  H. Halpert  & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 181  				The (Protestant) Society of United Fishermen..soon had no fewer than forty-two lodges. 1970    Britain: Official Handbk. 		(H.M.S.O.)	 xvi. 428  				The basic unit of organisation in most British trade unions is the local branch (sometimes called a lodge). 1974    Socialist Worker 7 Dec. 8/3  				And there were more than 30 other workplace units—such as chapels and lodges—represented. < as lemmas | 
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