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Example sentences for "preceptories"

Lexicographically close words:
precentors; precept; preceptes; preceptive; preceptor; preceptors; preceptory; preceptress; precepts; preces
  1. There were in bygone times the following preceptories of Knight Templars in the present kingdom of England.

  2. The preceptories and houses of the Temple in France, indeed, were so numerous, that it would be a wearisome and endless task to repeat the names of them.

  3. In the interval between these different voyages, the young knights were diligently employed at the different preceptories in the religious and military exercises necessary to fit them for their high vocation.

  4. The preceptories in these kingdoms were very numerous, and the property dependent upon them was of great value.

  5. There were also several preceptories in Scotland and Ireland, which were dependent on the Temple at London.

  6. The houses or preceptories of the Temple most known in this province or nation of the order were those of Cuenca and Guadalfagiara, Tine and Aviles in the diocese of Oviedo, and Pontevreda in Galicia.

  7. Here had been founded, in 1124, one of the great Priories or Preceptories under control of the English langue.

  8. The houses or preceptories of the Temple in the province of Castile and Leon were those of Cuenca, and Guadalfagiara; Tine and Aviles in the diocese of Oviedo, and Pontevreda in Galicia.

  9. Templars, drawn from the preceptories of England and France.

  10. The preceptories of the Templars were, as we shall show, the necessary consequence of the acquisition of property by the order, and had nothing hostile to society in their nature.

  11. The extensive possessions of the order of the Temple, in Asia and in Europe, were divided into provinces, each containing numerous preceptories or temple-houses, and each under its appointed governor.


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