Part 2154

<h1>Commissional, Commissionary</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw><hw>Com*mis"sion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Com*mis"sion*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Delegate or <b>commissionary</b> authority. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Commissionate</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"sion*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To commission</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Commissioner</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"sion*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some bussiness, for the goverment, corporation, or person employing him; <as>as, a <ex>commissioner</ex> to take affidavits or to adjust claims</as>.</def>

<blockquote>To another adress which requisted that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the <b>commissioners</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.</def>

<blockquote>Herbert was first <b>commissioner</b> of the Admiralty. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>commissioner</b> of patents, the <b>commissioner</b> of the land office, the <b>commissioner</b> of Indian affairs, are subotdinates of the secretary of the interior. <i>Bartlett.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Commissioner of deeds</col>, <cd>an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed.</cd> <mark>[U. S.]</mark> -- <col>County commissioners</col>, <cd>certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. <mark>[U. S.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Commissionnaire</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis`sion*naire"</hw> <tt>(?; F. ?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>commissio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An agent or factor; a commission merchant.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.</def>

<h1>Commissionship</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"sion*ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office of commissioner.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Commissive</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Commissural</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"su*ral</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a commissure.</def>

<h1>Commissure</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mis"sure</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?; 134-6)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>commissura</ets> a joing together: cf. F. <ets>commissure</ets>. See <er>Commit</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat. & Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.</def>

<h1>Commit</h1> <Xpage=284>

<hw>Com*mit"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Commited</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Commiting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>committere</ets>, <ets>commissum</ets>, to connect, commit; <ets>com-</ets> + <ets>mittere</ets> to send. See <er>Mission</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with <i>to</i>, <i>unto</i>.</def>