Commissary General, noun phrase
- Origin:
- English, DutchShow more English, or translation of Dutch commissaris-generaal an official of the Dutch East India Company (see Commissioner-General sense 2).
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Commissioner-General sense 2.
1688 G. Tachard Voy. to Siam II. 46Having informed himself that we were come to pay a Visit to the Commissary General and Governor, he commanded us to be let in.
1812 A. Plumptre tr. of H. Lichtenstein’s Trav. in Sn Afr. I. 108At the place where we now were we found numbers of these kind of dissentions, the parties concerned in which were very eager to lay their grievances before the Commissary-general.
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