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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Commissary \Com"mis*sa*ry\, n.; pl {Commissaries}. [LL. commissarius, fr L. commissus p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to See {Commit}.] 1. One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. --Donne. 2. (Eccl.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. --Ayliffe. 3. (Mil.) a An officer having charge of a special service; as the commissary of musters. b An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post -- officially called {commissary of subsistence}. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. --W. Irving {Commissary general}, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: a The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport department, or of the ordnance store department. [Eng.] b The commissary general of subsistence. [U. S.] {Commissary general of subsistence} (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.
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