commissionary

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adjective

Of, relating to, conferring, or conferred by a commission.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectivecommissionary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, relating to, conferring, or conferred by a commission.

    Delegate or commissionary authority.

    1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience

    Synonyms: commissional

nouncommissionary (plural commissionaries)

plural commissionaries

  1. a commission, an administrative board

    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.

    1602, “The First Part, Entreating what Counsell a Prince should use”, in Simon Patericke, transl., A Discourse upon the Meanes of VVel Governing and Maintainig in Good Peace, a Kingdome, or Other Principalitie. […], London: […] Adam Islip, translation of [Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre principauté] by [Innocent Gentillet], maxime 2, page 62
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    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.

    1982, Makhan Jha, Civilizational Regions of Mithila & Mahakoshal, Capital Publishing House, page 168

    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.

    1999, Vincent J.H. Houben, “Before departure: Coolie labour recruitment in Java, 1900-1942”, in Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia: A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c. 1900–1940, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 33

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, relating to, conferring, or conferred by a commission.

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