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Site: The Mason Word
Course: 1. Freemasonry for Non-Masons (Freemasonry for Non-Masons)
Glossary: Some Jargon Explained
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Speculative Freemason

The term 'speculative' refers to those gentlemen who joined lodges of operative masons in the seventeenth century.  By association the term is also applied to present-day Freemasons (sometimes also called Masons).

The terms Freemason and Mason are often used interchangeably, however sometimes for disambiguation the term Freemason is used for the Speculative lodges, and Mason used to describe Operative stonemasons.