Commissary

·noun An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.

II. Commissary ·noun One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

III. Commissary ·noun An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post;

— officially called commissary of subsistence.

IV. Commissary ·noun An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.