COMMISSARY
\kəmˈɪsəɹi], \kəmˈɪsəɹi], \k_ə_m_ˈɪ_s_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of COMMISSARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
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An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
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An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
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An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
By Oddity Software
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A commissioner.
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An officer in charge of subsistence, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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One to whom some charge, duty, or office is committed; an officer who has the charge of furnishing provisions, &c., for an army; the deputy of a bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in his absence in remote parts of his diocese; a judge in a commissary court.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One to whom is committed some duty or office; a delegate; an officer who has the charge of providing provisions, clothing, tents, transports, &c., for an army.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A deputy; a commissioner; —an officer having charge of a department, especially that of providing subsistence.
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An officer made occasionally, a delegate, a deputy; such as exercise spiritual juridiction in places of the diocese, far distant from the chief city ; an officer who draws up lifts of an army, and regulates the procuration of provision.
By Thomas Sheridan
