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Meanings of comendador in anglès

portuguès
comendador
català
comanador
espanyol
comendador militar

Charge that had the mission of providing military security to the serfs entrusted to him.

        Related terms
        comanador
        Usage of comendador in anglès
        1
        The person selected was Don Nicolas de Ovando, comendador of Lares, of the military order of Alcantara.
        The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
        2
        Bobadilla was a stern and rigorous churchman, comendador, or commander, of one of the famous religious-military orders in Spain.
        Christopher Columbus
        3
        Diego replied that the prisoners were held by order of the viceroy, and that the viceroy's authority was higher than the comendador's.
        Christopher Columbus
        4
        The comendador had been brutal, it is true; but it was not true that he had gone beyond the extent of his commission.
        Christopher Columbus
        5
        El Comendador's people tied their adversary, while their enemies tied one of his men.
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        6
        El Comendador's champions repeated the invocation, "St. Mary, help me, St. Mary, help me!"
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        7
        This miracle struck terror into the Comendador's enemies, and they recognised that the zemes of the Virgin was more powerful than their own.
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        8
        This devil sought to untie the young man who was acting as his champion, but at the first invocation of the Comendador the Virgin appeared.
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for comendador
        portuguès
        comendador
        Comendador through the time