Comacine,a.andn.|ˈkəʊməsaɪn|[ad.It.comacino,app.ult.f.Como in Italy(seequot.1899).]A.adj.Comacine masters[It.maestri comacini], a mediæval guild of Italian masons.B.n.A mason or builder belonging to this guild.1899‘L. Scott’Cathedral Builders 5The origin of the name Comacine Masters has caused a great deal of argument amongst Italian writers new and old. Some think it merely a place-name referring to the island of Comacina, in Lake Lario or Como; others take a wider significance, and say it means not only the city of Como, but all the province, which was once a Roman colony of great extension. Others again, among whom is Grotius, suggest that it is not a place-name at all, but comes from the Teutonic word Gemachin or house-builders. As the Longobards afterwards called them in Italian Maestri Casarii, which means the same thing, there is perhaps something to be said for this hypothesis.Ibid.9Rome is..full of remains of what is now styled Comacine architecture.Ibid.17There is no certain proof that the Comacines were the veritable stock from which the pseudo-Freemasonry of the present day sprang.1900MonthlyRev.I. 103The Comacine masters have their existence sufficiently proved by..the edict of Rotharis (dated 653).Ibid.104The collegiate and Comacine constitutions.