Definition of office

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Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new..

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Province :: Province (n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
Garb :: Garb (n.) The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge..
Elective :: Elective (a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office..
Xystarch :: Xystarch (n.) An office/ having the superintendence of the xyst.
Countourhouse :: Countourhouse (n.) A merchant's office; a countinghouse.
Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..
Admiralty :: Admiralty (n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
Vigintivirate :: Vigintivirate (n.) The office of the vigintiviri, a body of officers of government consisting of twenty men; also, the vigintiviri..
Administratorship :: Administratorship (n.) The position or office of an administrator.
Keepership :: Keepership (n.) The office or position of a keeper.
Senatorship :: Senatorship (n.) The office or dignity of a senator.
Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..
Bureau :: Bureau (n.) The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..
Semidouble :: Semidouble (n.) An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones. See Double, n., 8..
Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority..
Outrider :: Outrider (n.) A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
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