commissaryship
English edit
Etymology edit
commissary + -ship
Noun edit
commissaryship (plural commissaryships)
- The position or employment of a commissary.
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
- […] the Offices of an Officialty to an Archdeacon , and of a Chancellorship or Commissaryship to a Bishop […]
References edit
- “commissaryship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.