noun the office or rank of a commander.
2. commandery ·noun a district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
3. commandery ·noun an assembly or lodge of knights templars (so called) among the freemasons.
4. commandery ·noun a district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander;
called also a preceptory.