0 a government official with a particular responsibility:
1 a shop that supplies food and goods, especially to people in the army or in prison
The middle of February began the removal of the ordnance and commissary stores by railroad to the south of the rivers in our rear.
There was no commissary department, there were no uniforms, no arrangements for ammunition, no small arms, no cannon, no resources to draw upon for all these necessaries of war.
The commissaries therefore suspended their decision until the result of that action was known.
However, from 1684 onwards the commissaries (judges) kept registers of extracted decreets, and process papers were also kept in a more systematic fashion.
Likewise, in the commissary's court between 1589 and 1591 only 18 debt cases (13 per cent) had their origins in defaults from formal, written bonds.
Most of them - twelve in 1608, thirteen in 1625, all fourteen in 1636 - were diocesan chancellors, commissaries, or archdeacon's officials.
He could appoint commissaries to act on his behalf and remove them from office when necessary.
In 1703 the bishop was still claiming that his commissaries were entitled to censure scandals among the laity.
