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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..

Hara-kiri :: Hara-kiri (n.) Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari..

Salute :: Salute (v.) A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc..

Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..

Bureaucracy :: Bureaucracy (n.) Government officials, collectively..

Officiary :: Officiary (a.) Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.

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.

Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..

Sufficing :: Sufficiently (adv.) To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties..

Prefecture :: Prefecture (n.) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence..

Ex Officio :: Ex officio () From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially..

Civil :: Civil (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state..

Verger :: Verger (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.

Probate :: Probate (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will..

Service :: Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..

Jobber :: "Jobber (n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue..

Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..

Expedite :: Expedite (v. t.) To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

Jenkins :: "Jenkins (n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper..

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