What's the difference between freemasonic and freemasonry?
Freemasonic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
(2) But he and Mozart were both freemasons and, at a time when the movement was regarded by the Archduke as a potentially subversive political threat, sought to create an opera that is about spiritual trial and initiation.
(3) According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, Rees exploited his position as a freemason to make links with masonic police officers who illegally sold him information on targets chosen by the News of the World, the Sunday Mirror and the Daily Mirror.
(4) One friendly freemason engaged my three-year-old, who was dressed as Dracula, in banter about her outfit, rich coming from a man who moments before was blindfolded in a pair of one-legged trousers, like the singer from Imagination.
(5) In May 2010, there appears a bizarre spat with another Wiki contributor, Widefox, over claims that Shapps was a member of the Freemasons.
(6) Sadly, the temple and museum were closed that day, as the freemasons were assembled within, deciding the future of the world.
(7) Colin Ashford, who makes cufflinks, medals and regalia for Freemasons, in a Victorian workshop, doubted the government's figures on jobs and growth.
(8) Last Saturday, I took my children on a tour of the Freemasons’ Hall in Covent Garden.
(9) Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
(10) The Bank's building looks impenetrable and its internal structure reeks of hierarchy, like a Freemason's hall.
(11) The US coastguard confirmed for the first time that oil had made its way past protective booms and was surrounding Freemason Island.
(12) Interestingly, all the Freemasons I spoke to that weekend were either builders or were in the police service.
(13) Bin Laden also owned Bloodlines of the Illuminati, by Fritz Springmeier, an Oregon man who has written extensively about the eponymous semi-historical sect, mind control, Jehovah’s witnesses and Freemasons.
(14) But, luckily for my disappointed children, suddenly hundreds of freemasons streamed from the temple into Covent Garden, each dressed in trademark black suit, and carrying a little bag just big enough to hold his apron, his dagger and some Shippam’s fish paste sandwiches from his freemason mum, in case he got hungry while manipulating global events.
(15) The father of two has previously declared a membership of the freemasons, although he said in 2009 that he had not been active for many years.
(16) Italian-speakers might enjoy Libernazione.it , a website that has an automatic generator of Grillini insults, mostly about banks, subservient media, freemasons and corrupt politicians.
(17) Messina Denaro is allegedly shielded by powerful freemasons in the port town of Trapani , near Castelvetrano, where magistrates probing mafia-masonry links last year received anonymous death threats and discovered a listening device in their office.
Freemasonry
Definition:
(n.) The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, thanks to good investigative journalism, there has been little secret for years about the high-living corruption of the self-perpetuating freemasonry that is Fifa.
(2) For Mozart, freemasonry represented his intuition that there was something finer and purer in life beyond the material and the everyday."
(3) All the druidic mumbo-jumbo about the Elevating Principle and the Straight Line reminds me of stuff I furtively read in my father's books on freemasonry.
(4) Far-right candidate narrowly defeated in Austrian presidential election Read more Viewed by many conservatives as too leftwing, and by more militant Greens as not radical enough, Van der Bellen spent the early part of his political career in the Social Democrats and even flirted briefly with Freemasonry.
(5) Arcane customs and procedures baffled new MPs, until they were slowly drawn into the freemasonry.
(6) Earlier, it had listed interests including bodybuilding, conservative politics and freemasonry.
(7) Milos Vasic, a Belgrade political commentator, said: "If freemasonry were the thing tomorrow, he would instantly become the grandmaster of the first Serbian lodge.
(8) That vacuum had to be filled in order for the status quo – the miasma of relationships between the state, organised crime, freemasonry and commerce – to remain intact.