Commissary

kom′is-ar-i, n. one to whom any charge is committed: a deputy: ( Scots law ) the judge in a commi ary court: a higher officer of police: ( eccles. ) an officer representing a bishop, and performing his duties in distant parts of the diocese: an officer who furnishes provisions, ., to an army.— adj. Commi ā′rial , pertaining to a commi ary.— ns. Commi ā′riat , the department charged with the furnishing of provisions, as for an army: the supply of provisions: the office of a commi ary; Comm′i ary-gen′eral , the head of the department for supplying provisions, ., to an army; Comm′i aryship .— Commi ary Court , a supreme court established in Edinburgh in 1563, with jurisdiction in questions of marriage—its powers conjoined with those of the Court of Se ion in 1836. [Low L. commi ar i us —L. committĕre , commis sum .]