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.
  A commis chef is a trainee or a recently qualified cook who works under a chef de partie (a chef who is responsible for a certain area in the kitchen such as vegetables, â¦ pastry, fish). The commis chef acts as an apprentice to learn that paritcular area of cooking.