OPage 51
- English Word Official Definition Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
- English Word Official Definition Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
- English Word Official Definition Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
- English Word Official Definition Discharging an office or function.
- English Word Official Definition One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- English Word Official Definition An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- English Word Officialily Definition See Officialty.
- English Word Officialism Definition The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
- English Word Officially Definition By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
- English Word Officialty Definition The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
- English Word Officiant Definition The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.
- English Word Officiary Definition Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.
- English Word Officiate Definition To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
- English Word Officiate Definition To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.
- English Word Officiated Definition of Officiate
- English Word Officiating Definition of Officiate
- English Word Officiator Definition One who officiates.
- English Word Officinal Definition Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
- English Word Officinal Definition Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
- English Word Officious Definition Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.