Official(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
Official(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Official(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Official(n.) 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.
Official(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
Official(n.) Discharging an office or function.
Officialism(n.) The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
Officially(adv.) 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.
Officiant(n.) The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.
Officiate(v. i.) To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
Officiate(v. t.) To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.
Officiated(imp. & p. p.) of Officiate
Officiating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Officiate
Officiator(n.) One who officiates.
Officious(a.) Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
Officious(a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
Officious(a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
Words within officiousness