Commissionary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Commissionary is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, conferring, or conferred by a commission.
Meaning
Of, relating to, conferring, or conferred by a commission.
More Meanings
- a commission, an administrative board
Example Sentences
Delegate or commissionary authority.
After the death of king Philip; Charles Counte de Valois, his brother, begun criminally to purſue M. Enguerrant before certaine commiſſionaries of the ſaid court, delegated for that purpoſe.
The observance of this multitude of rules was the task of officials of the Labour Inspectorate, namely the so-called recruitment commissionaries (wervingscommissarissen).[…]In 1910 the commissionaries were given the authority to detect and report penal offences.
Besides these re-organisations at the districts level, the Tirhut district of the last century has been virtually divided into three commissionaries of North Bihar within one hundred year viz. the Tirhut Commissionary, comprising the districts of Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Vaisali, Sonepur, etc.
Word Forms
- commissionaries
Synonyms for commissionary
Depending on context, synonyms include commissional.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include commissarial, comminatory, comminative, committal, consular, confederal.
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