commissaryship

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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 []

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