in the ecclesiastical law, an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in places of a diocese so far from the episcopal see, that the chancellor cannot call the people to the bishop's principal consistory court, without giving them too much inconvenience.

Commissary-Court, in Scotland, a court originally constituted by the bishops for executing in their name an usurped jurisdiction; and was anciently called the bishop's court, curia Christianitatis, or consistorial court. This court was modelled by Queen Mary at the Reformation, and continues to this day.

a military sense, is of different sorts.

Commissary-General of the Mystics, an officer appointed to muster the army, as often as the general thinks proper, in order to know the strength of each regiment. COMMISSIONARY OF Horses, an officer in the artillery, appointed to have the inspection of the artillery-horses, to see them muzzled, and to send such orders as he receives from the commanding officer of the artillery, by some of the conductors of horses, of which he has a certain number for his assistants.