a. Obs. rare–1. [f. L. efficientia: see prec. + -ARY.] Pertaining to executive action.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. xiv. (1739), 26. [They] exercised not only a Judiciary power … but challenged an Efficienciary power in the Marriage-making.
a. Obs. rare–1. [f. L. efficientia: see prec. + -ARY.] Pertaining to executive action.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. xiv. (1739), 26. [They] exercised not only a Judiciary power … but challenged an Efficienciary power in the Marriage-making.
