Obs. [ad. med.L. commissiōnārius, f. commissio COMMISSION: see -ARY.] = COMMISSIONER, COMMISSARY.

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1555.  Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 50. Appoynted a commissionarie in thaffayres of India.

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1598.  in Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., VI. (1677), 454. The Office of Commissionary.

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a. 1600.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VIII. viii. § 4. That the thing may be their act … by commissionaries few or many.

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