commissaryship

English

Etymology

From commissary +‎ -ship.

Noun

commissaryship (plural commissaryships)

1. 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

• “commissaryship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.