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Commanderies :: Commanderies (pl. ) of Commander.

Temerity :: Temerity (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war..

Polemarch :: Polemarch (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer..

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

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

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

Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..

Unfortunate :: Unfortunate (a.) Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business..

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

Ovation :: Ovation (n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves..

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..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander..

Emeer :: Emeer (n.) An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials..

Commandant :: Commandant (n.) A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard..

Enomotarch :: Enomotarch (n.) The commander of an enomoty.

Privateer :: Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.

Preceptory :: Preceptory (n.) A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2..

Heretog :: Heretog (n.) The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal..

Chief :: Chief (n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent..

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

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