Masonic

Ma·son·ic

(mə-sŏn′ĭk)

adj.

Relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry.

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masonic

(məˈsɒnɪk)

adj

1. (often capital) of, characteristic of, or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry

2. (Building) of or relating to masons or masonry

maˈsonically adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Ma•son•ic

(məˈsɒn ɪk)

adj.

pertaining to or characteristic of Freemasons or Freemasonry.

[1790–1800]

Ma•son′i•cal•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	masonic - of or relating to stonemasons or masonry; "masonic tools"
	2.	Masonic - of or relating to Freemasons or Freemasonry; "Masonic lodge"

Translations

massonico

masonic

[məˈsɒnɪk] ADJ (also Masonic) → masónico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

masonic

Masonic [məˈsɒnɪk] adj → maçonnique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

masonic

adj → Freimaurer-; handshake → unter Freimaurern; masonic lodge/order → Freimaurerloge f → /-orden m

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masonic

[məˈsɒnɪk] adj → massonico/a

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After the tent left town, the Euchre Club became the Owl Club, and gave dances in the Masonic Hall once a week.

Grandfather didn't approve of dancing, anyway; he would only say that if I wanted to dance I could go to the Masonic Hall, among `the people we knew.' It was just my point that I saw altogether too much of the people we knew.

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And again, glancing at the stranger's hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull- a Masonic sign.

"I am afraid," said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs- "I am afraid I am very far from understanding- how am I to put it?- I am afraid my way of looking at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one another."

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Two months and a half elapsed in these trips, and Edmond had become as skilful a coaster as he had been a hardy seaman; he had formed an acquaintance with all the smugglers on the coast, and learned all the Masonic signs by which these half pirates recognize each other.

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I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man, upon which he jumped from his chair, reproved me for my habitual levity, which made it impossible for him to discuss any reasonable subject in my presence, and bounced off out of the room to dress for a Masonic meeting.

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The Surrogate knows me, when I go down to be sworn; and disposes of me easily, as if there were a Masonic understanding between us.

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Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and the Common looked like a pleasure-ground on the morrow of a Masonic picnic.

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On no account was Kim to part with them, for they belonged to a great piece of magic - such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue-and-white Jadoo-Gher - the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge.

If the woman had sent Kim up to the local Jadoo-Gher with those papers, he would, of course, have been taken over by the Provincial Lodge, and sent to the Masonic Orphanage in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she distrusted.

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Before the door stood two lofty posts, connected at the top by a beam, from which was suspended an enormous sign, ornamented around its edges with certain curious carvings in pine boards, and on its faces loaded with Masonic emblems.

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The world is full of masonic ties, of guilds, of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.