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Commandery :: Commandery (n.) An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.

Knight Templar :: Knight Templar () See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3..

Chieftain :: Chieftain (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.

Waywode :: Waywode (n.) Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers..

Trierarch :: Trierarch (n.) The commander of a trireme.

Agha :: Agha (n.) In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect..

Commander :: Commander (n.) The chief officer of a commandery.

Cid :: Cid (n.) Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century..

Commandership :: Commandership (n.) The office of a commander.

Truce :: Truce (n.) A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice..

Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..

Conductor :: Conductor (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director..

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search..

Commander :: Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army..

Imperator :: Imperator (n.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor..

Commanderies :: Commanderies (pl. ) of Commander.

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) 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..

General :: General (a.) One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal..

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