Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the Free and Accepted Masons, an international fraternal and charitable organization with secret rites and signs.
- noun A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of an order, fraternity, or brotherhood forming a secret society, or series of affiliated secret societies called lodges, now existing in all the countries of Europe, in many parts of America, and in other parts of the world where Europeans have settled in larger or smaller communities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of a
guild of skilleditinerant masons during theMiddle Ages .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love
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Examples
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Quite recently W. Begemann [7] combats the opinion of Speth [8] as purely hypothetical, stating that the name freemason originally designated particularly skilled freestone-masons, needed at the time of the most magnificent evolution of Gothic architecture, and nothing else.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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In English law the word freemason is first mentioned in 1495, while frank-mason occurs already in an Act of 1444-1445.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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In Mesbah Yazdi's vernacular, a "freemason" is an anti-clerical person.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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In Mesbah Yazdi's vernacular, a "freemason" is an anti-clerical person.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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In Mesbah Yazdi's vernacular, a "freemason" is an anti-clerical person.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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In Mesbah Yazdi's vernacular, a "freemason" is an anti-clerical person.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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October 30, 2009 12:49pm the freemason is a moron sarah
Disney Zombies 2009
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"freemason" is a misnomer, the word's an oxymoron or whatever.
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As early as April 4, 2011, Mesbah Yazdi referred to Ahmadinejad and his team as the gravest threat to Islam and intimated that they were "freemason" infiltrators.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
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As early as April 4, 2011, Mesbah Yazdi referred to Ahmadinejad and his team as the gravest threat to Islam and intimated that they were "freemason" infiltrators.
Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative Ali Rahnema 2011
bilby commented on the word freemason
Rhyme with capsaicin is perhaps my favourite here.
July 27, 2021