Definition of "commissary-general" [commissary-general]

• The head of the commissariat or subsistence department of an army. See commissary, 4. (noun)
• A chief commissary. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Antonio de Ciudad Real, traveling during the years 1584 – 9 through Mexico with Fray Alonso Ponce, a Franciscan commissary-general, notes how one community was reduced to ruin by the epidemic:"
• "So I did, and some first-rate military intelligence we overheard, too - about the appointment of a commissary-general for the Omsk region, and whether the fellow who commanded Orianburg oughtn't to be retired."
• "Mme. Vauquer herself occupying the least important, while the rest were let to a Mme. Couture, the widow of a commissary-general in the service of the Republic."