commissaryship

English

Etymology

commissary +‎ -ship

Noun

commissaryship (plural commissaryships)

  1. The position or employment of a commissary.
    • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani
      […] 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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