commissaryship

English

Etymology

commissary +‎ -ship

Noun

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

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

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