Vocabulary : Commissarial to Commissionate

Commissarial : Of or pertaining to a commissary.
Commissariat : The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries. ;; The body of officers charged with such service.
Commissaries : of Commissary
Commissary : One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. ;; An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. ;; An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters. ;; An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
Commissaryship : The office or employment of a commissary.
Commission : The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. ;; The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. ;; The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. ;; A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. ;; A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. ;; A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. ;; The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. ;; The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. ;; 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. ;; To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons
Commissionaire : One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. ;; One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.
Commissional : Alt. of Commissionary
Commissionary : Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
Commissionate : To commission
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