Obs. [In origin the same word as prec.; but here repr. Ger. commissariat, in a special application.] (See quot.)
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., IV. 537. Such of the inhabitants as devote themselves to the sciences are instructed either at Heiligenstadt by the Jesuits, or at Duderstadt by the clergy in the commissariate. Ibid., IV. 541. Duderstadt … is the residence of the commissariate, or spiritual-court.
