Commissary
['kɒmɪs(ə)rɪ] or ['kɑmɪsɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel).
(noun.) a snack bar in a film studio.
Typist: Nadine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
(n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
(n.) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
(n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
Typist: Tyler
Definition
n. one to whom any charge is committed: a deputy: (Scots law) the judge in a commissary court: a higher officer of police: (eccles.) an officer representing a bishop and performing his duties in distant parts of the diocese: an officer who furnishes provisions &c. to an army.—adj. Commissā′rial pertaining to a commissary.—ns. Commissā′riat the department charged with the furnishing of provisions as for an army: the supply of provisions: the office of a commissary; Comm′issary-gen′eral the head of the department for supplying provisions &c. to an army; Comm′issaryship.—Commissary Court a supreme court established in Edinburgh in 1563 with jurisdiction in questions of marriage—its powers conjoined with those of the Court of Session in 1836.
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Examples
- But I had been quartermaster, commissary and adjutant in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The commissary general of prisoners reported having issued rations to 14,623 Fort Donelson prisoners at Cairo, as they passed that point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the Mexican war in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill since. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This saving was purchased by the commissary for the benefit of the fund. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was detailed to act as quartermaster and commissary to the regiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Brooke is commander in chief, I am commissary general, the other fellows are staff officers, and you, ladies, are company. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Commissary general, will you make the fire and get water, while Miss March, Miss Sallie, and I spread the table? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Most of the army had now been for three weeks with only five days' rations issued by the commissary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Too much credit cannot, therefore, be awarded to the quartermaster and commissary departments for the zeal and efficiency displayed by them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had with him two hundred wagons loaded with rations, the only commissary supplies received during the entire campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Seventeen guns fell into our hands, and the enemy destroyed by fire their store-houses, containing a large amount of commissary stores. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The chief quartermaster and the chief commissary were graduates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was regimental quartermaster and commissary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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