commissaryship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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.