\Com*mand"er*y\, n.; pl. {Commanderies}. [F.
commanderie.]
1. The office or rank of a commander. [Obs.]
2. 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}.
3. An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among
   the Freemasons. [U. S.]
4. A district under the administration of a military
   commander or governor. [R.] --Brougham.