commissarialn.adj.
/ˌkɒmᵻˈsɛːrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌkɑməˈsɛriəl/ Scots Law. Any of a number of local courts established in 1563 after the Reformation, dealing with matters of probate, divorce, etc., which were previously under the jurisdiction of a bishop's commissary or diocesan official; = commissary court n. 2. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > specific inheritance or probate courts
commissaries' court?1529
Orphan's court1568
schynd1577
commissary court1644
Court of Probate1655
commissarial1680
prerogative court1702
probate court1726
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified 24 There are in every Shire..Civil Judicatories, or Courts kept, wherein the Sheriff of the Shire, or his Deputy decideth Controversies and Law-Suits... There are likewise Judicatories, called Commissarials, for Ecclesiastical Affairs.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or deriving from a commissary (in various senses). Cf. commissorial adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [adjective] > relating to a commissary
commissorial1680
commissarial1702
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [adjective] > commissary
commissarial1808
1702 F. Atterbury Case Schedule Stated 62 If a General Commission to the Prolocutor..at the Opening of the Convocation had tied him up to Adjourn in his Commissarial Capacity ever afterwards [etc.].
1756 Crisis 33 Any other kind of treaties, provisoes, truces, ministerial, embassadorial, commissarial, or otherwise.
1795 Hull Advertiser 21 Mar. 2/2 The long expected Commissarial decree..was..published.
1808 E. Malone in W. G. Hamilton Parl. Logick Pref. p. xxxii That minute and commissarial knowledge of petty military matters.
1871 T. North Five Years in Texas ii. 36 The commissarial department of army supplies lacked energy, integrity, perseverance.
1924 Glasgow Herald 5 July 6 The [Russian] peasantry..tolerate the presence of Jews in the subordinate commissarial posts.
1980 B. Caven Punic Wars 239 He [sc. Scipio] could be sure of naval and commissarial assistance from Sardinia.
2009 J. Pollak & S. P. Riekmann in D. Curtin & M. Egeberg Towards New Executive Order Europe? vii. 136 Commissarial management will only work if the new political order it represents is based on an ‘idée directrice’ capable of gaining the active consensus of elites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1680