Word Finder - official

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An office holder invested with powers and authorities.

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David Barnes was the official charged with the running of the sports club.

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A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

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In most soccer games there are three officials: the referee and two linesmen.

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Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.

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official duties

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Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority

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an official statement or report

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Approved by authority; authorized.

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The Official Strategy Guide

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(pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.

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an official drug or preparation

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Discharging an office or function.

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Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

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Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

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True, real, beyond doubt.

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Well, it's official: you lost your mind!

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Listen in a national pharmacopeia.

Take this as an official request.

He's the one who made this an official matter for the sheriff's office.

After all, it was the night of our official engagement.

In 1821 he began his official career as a lawyer in the grand-duchy of Hesse, and in 1832 was elected to the second chamber.

She wasn't able to make an official deal with Darkyn to save the kids, and she had nothing to offer him.

You've got no official capacity here, Mr. Dean.

Darian started towards the palace, intending to take her to bed with him once more before he started his official duties.

This was already far enough beyond his official duties to make him feel a twinge of guilt.

We had tacit official sanction, on our terms.

You shall be the Official Wizard of my kingdom, and be treated with every respect and consideration.

It was Lydia Larkin, in uniform, in her official vehicle.

An old gentleman wearing a star and another official, a German wearing a cross round his neck, approached the speaker.

If she proved to be as he suspected she was, she might find herself the first woman in his society given the official position of strategy battle planner, a position traditionally held by the dhjan alone.

Drowned, that was the official conclusion.

Incipient brain-disease compelled him to withdraw from official life in November 1863, and he died at Spandau on the 26th of August 1865.

The Public Record of Horatio Seymour (New York, 1868) includes his speeches and official papers between 1856 and 1868.

He went to Italy as president of the commission, carrying to the prince at Florence the official news of his election.

The crisis of 1860, by which the office he held was abolished, was the end of his official career; for the rest of his life he was very prominent as the leader of the Federalist party in Bohemia.

In the cinctus Gabinus, which was the fashion adopted in early times when fighting was in prospect, the end of the toga was drawn tightly round the waist and formed a kind of girdle; this was retained in certain official functions, such as the opening of the emple of Janus in historical times.

The poor landowner, likely to lose all that he had from one kind of oppression or another, went to the great landowner, his neighbour, whose position gave him immunity from attack or the power to prevent official abuses, and begged to be protected.

What happened was outside of Gabe's official purview.

This brought them under the official censure, and was forbidden.

From England he passed to the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and on his return to the Peninsula in 1796 was appointed official translator to the foreign office.

Walmer Castle was for long the official residence of the lord warden, but has, since the resignation of Lord Curzon in 1903, ceased to be so used, and those portions of it which are of historic interest are now open to the public. George, prince of Wales (lord warden, 1903-1907), was the first lord warden of royal blood since the office was held by George, prince of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne.

The judge sits as the official and commissary of the lord warden, just as the judge of the high court of admiralty sat as the official and commissary of the lord high admiral.

Dr Phillimore's patent had a grant of the "place or office of judge official and commissary of the court of admiralty of the Cinque Ports, and their members and appurtenances, and to be assistant to my lieutenant of Dover castle in all such affairs and business concerning the said court of admiralty wherein yourself and assistance shall be requisite and necessary."

The magistrates bore the name of scabini (schepenen or echevins), and at their head was the seigneurial official - the schout or baljuw.

His apologists explain that his action was merely "official," but Bonner was one of those who brought it to pass that the condemnation of heretics to the fire should be part of his ordinary official duties.

The enforcement of the first Book of Common Prayer had also been part of his official duties; and the fact that Bonner made no such protest against the burning of heretics as he had done in the former case shows that he found it the more congenial duty.

The dynasty accepted Judaism (c. 740), but there was equal tolerance for all, and each man was held amenable to the authorized code and to the official judges of his own faith.

Hong-Kong being a free port, there are no official figures as to the amount of trade; but the value of the exports and imports is estimated as about £50,000,000 in the year.

Many members of the upper, that is, the best-educated, class have filled official positions of great responsibility.

Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.

A French official wearing a scarf came up to the right of the row of prisoners and read out the sentence in Russian and in French.

In a variety of ways it does a great deal of social service similar to that of gilds of help. Its administration has always been in the hands of laymen, and it works through local "conferences" or branches, the general council having been suspended because it declined to accept a cardinal as its official head.

In the 14th century the district was first overrun by the Mahommedans, after which it was annexed to the newly established Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, an official of which named Dhar Rao, according to local tradition, built the fort at Dharwar town in 1403.

In spite of the official rebuff received from the mother-country, the Australian ministry, in drawing up the new Federal tariff, gave a substantial preference to British imports, and thus showed their willingness to go farther.

Throughout Egyptian history the official costume was conventionalized, and the latest kings and even the Roman emperors are arrayed like their predecessors of the IVth Dynasty.

Educated at Meung and at Angers, he entered the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil, and in 1079 became abbot of this place, but his time was devoted to literary pursuits rather than to his official duties.

The French metric system is the official standard of weights and measures and is in use in the custom-houses of the republic and in foreign trade, but the old units are still commonly used among the people.

The Creoles (Criallos) or American-born Spaniards had for long been aggrieved at being shut out from all important official positions, and at the restrictions placed upon their trade, but the bulk of the Creole population was not disloyal.

In September 1899 President Pierola vacated the presidency in favour of Senor Romana, who had been elected to the office as a popular condidate and without the exercise of any undue official influence.

Without holding any official post in the commonwealth he had created, the prior of St Mark's was the real head of the state, the dictator of Florence, and guarded the public weal "Dictator with extraordinary political wisdom.

As the works did not pay under official management, they were transferred to the director-general of railways.

See Memoir and Official Correspondence of General John Stark (Concord, N.H., 1860) by his grandson Caleb Stark (1804-1864), who wrote in 1831 Reminiscences of the French War containing Rogers's Expeditions with the New England Rangers and an Account.

With his retirement or recall from Cappadocia his official career came to an end.

The official designation for the province as a whole in the charter of 1663, therefore, was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

In 1784 the Language Edict made German the official language of the common state.

His youth was marked by a constant willingness to rebel against merely official authority; to genuine excellence, whether moral or intellectual, he was always ready to pay unbounded deference.

The sketch and ground plan of this great undertaking had Official .