CPage 449
- English Word Commissary Definition An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
- English Word Commissaryship Definition The office or employment of a commissary.
- English Word Commission Definition The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
- English Word Commission Definition The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
- English Word Commission Definition The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
- English Word Commission Definition A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
- English Word Commission Definition A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
- English Word Commission Definition A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
- English Word Commission Definition The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
- English Word Commission Definition The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
- English Word Commission Definition The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
- English Word Commission Definition To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
- English Word Commission Definition To send out with a charge or commission.
- English Word Commissional Definition Alt. of Commissionary
- English Word Commissionary Definition Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
- English Word Commissionate Definition To commission
- English Word Commissioned Definition of Commission
- English Word Commissioner Definition A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
- English Word Commissioner Definition An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
- English Word Commissioning Definition of Commission