Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chapter of a medieval military order such as the Knights Templars or of a modern fraternal order.
- noun A building serving as an administrative or ritual center for such a chapter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving precepts; preceptive.
- noun A subordinate religious house where instruction was given.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Preceptive.
- noun A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See
commandery , n., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
community of theKnights Templar , or the physical buildings or estate of such a community.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was hardly a major centre of civilization where they did not have a preceptory—as, for example, the wide scatter of such place names as Temple Fortune and Temple Bar (London) and Temple Meads (Bristol) in England still shows.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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It is significant that the town of Troyes, from which Chrétien took his surname, was a cabalistic centre and the site of the original Templar preceptory—and it was where the Count of Champagne held his court.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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Poor Isaac was hurried off accordingly, and expelled from the preceptory; all his entreaties, and even his offers, unheard and disregarded.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Master of the Temple within a preceptory of his Order? —
Ivanhoe 2004
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There was hardly a major centre of civilization where they did not have a preceptory—as, for example, the wide scatter of such place names as Temple Fortune and Temple Bar (London) and Temple Meads (Bristol) in England still shows.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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It is significant that the town of Troyes, from which Chrétien took his surname, was a cabalistic centre and the site of the original Templar preceptory—and it was where the Count of Champagne held his court.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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Proceeding northwards first we may take the road by Templecombe that was once a preceptory of the Knights Templars and now has a station on the main line of the South Western Railway, to Wincanton, a small market town on the Cale ( "Wyndcaleton") at the head of the Vale of
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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_Torphichen Church_, Linlithgowshire, represents the hospital or preceptory of Torphichen, from 1153 the principal Scottish residence of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Beyond the Carmelite house, nearer Leith, stood the preceptory of St. Anthony, the only house of that order in Scotland.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Kilmainham Wood, County Meath, a preceptory belonging to the Knights
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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