[f. Gr. χαριστικ-ός bounteous, freely given + -ARY.]
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Charisticary, Commendatary, or Donatary, a person to whom is given the enjoyment of the revenues of a monastery, hospital, or benefice. The charisticaries among the Greeks … enjoyed all the revenues of hospitals and monasteries, without giving an account thereof to any person.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl., III. 692. Charisticaries, officers (in Greek ecclesiastical history).
