Operative Masonry

English Pronunciation en /ˈɑpərətɪv ˈmeɪsənri/ US en /ˈɒpərətɪv ˈmeɪsənri/ UK Proper noun Operative Masonry en Freemasonry archaic Practical masonry, i.e. construction with stone and other materials, understood as a coherent and ancient system contrasted with Speculative Masonry or Freemasonry. en Speculative Masonry en 16 February 1878 Rob Morris (Freemason) Rob Morris The Holy Land and the Temple The Freemason’s Chronicle 7 164 116 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHUtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA116 But you and I, my brother, are taught that Operative Masonry is but the outward form, the type, the model of speculative Masonry; and that King Solomon’s Temple, with all its particulars, was the antitype of the grand world-wide system which we call Freemasonry.