[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office or position of a commissary.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M., 1117 (R.). Dismissed of his commissariship.
1701. Bp. G. Hooper, Proc. House Convoc. Vind., 42. His other Imagination of the Commissaryship of the Lower House.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 162. A Commissaryship is not grantable for Life, so as to bind the succeeding Bishop.
