Word Meanings - OFFICIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Related words: (words related to OFFICIATE)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• TRANSACTOR
  One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
• TRUSTLESS
  That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• TRUSTING
  Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PUBLICITY
  The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
• PERFORMANCE
  The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• MISTRUSTLESS
  Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.
• DISTRUSTLESS
  Free from distrust. Shenstone.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.