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The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book. Bp. Hall.

To say wrongly.

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.

some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner. Great Destiny, the Commissary of God. Donne.

The office or employment of a commissary. Ayliffe.

scharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

s at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

The office of an emissary.

he first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

an Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

Any sending away; dismissal; riddance. To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts. Milton.

Same as Emissary, a., 2.

ice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.

l officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.