Pedi means feet and hundreds of years ago, the word impediment referred to shackling one's feet. Now its use has broadened considerably. Impediment is something that blocks or impedes your path.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Commissary. A commissary is someone delegated by a superior to execute a duty or an office; in a formal, legal context, one who has received power from a legitimate superior authority to pass judgment in a certain cause or to take information concerning it.
In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.