[f. FUNCTION sb. + -ARY2.]
1. = FUNCTIONAL 2.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), III. 59. The disease may … commence in some structural or functionary affection of the abdominal organs.
2. Official; = FUNCTIONAL 1.
1862. Marivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VI. xlix. 118. In order that these offices should be adequately filled, it was necessary to maintain this functionary reservoir constantly at the same exalted level.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1310/2. As to the functionary duties of the Levites, they are to keep the charge of the sanctuary with the priests in general, yet distinctly separated from the latter.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 23 Aug., 2/3. Let us have done with these fictions of functionary superiority.
