Definition of official

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Official (n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal..

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Proclamation :: Proclamation (n.) The act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.
Superoxide :: Superordination (n.) The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor..
Catechumen :: Catechumen (L. catechunenus, Gr. / instructed, from /. See) One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church..
Registrant :: Registrant (n.) One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark..
Bureau :: Bureau (n.) Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
Denouncement :: Denouncement (n.) Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..
Censor :: Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries..
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law..
Officiate :: Officiate (v. t.) To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood..
Officialism :: Officialism (n.) The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism..
Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Ecclesiarch :: Ecclesiarch (n.) An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church..
Position :: Position (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position..
Census :: Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country..
Wig :: Wig (n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers..
Curule :: Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official..
Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..
Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service..
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