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.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Also called: political commissar an official of the Communist Party responsible for political education, esp in a military unit. 2. (Historical Terms) Also called: People's Commissar (before 1946) the head of a government department. Now called: minister.