Definition of Officiaries

1. officiary [n] - See also: officiary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officiaries

officialism
officialisms
officialities
officiality
officialization
officialize
officialized
officializes
officializing
officially
officials
officialties
officialty
officiant
officiants
officiaries (current term)
officiary
officiate
officiated
officiates
officiating
officiation
officiations
officiator
officiators
officinal
officinals
officious
officiously

Literary usage of Officiaries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church in the by Charles Elliott (1855)
"... or pastors, as it is notorious that no practical acts of infraction have been resorted to by any of the officiaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"... called officiaries : a ground officer pre- fides over each, and has three, four, or five hundred men under his care. ..."

3. On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"... could they be contemplated merely and exclusively as officiaries of the national Church, would be fulfilled in the communication of that degree and kind ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"... 1875, in the jurisdictions in which the orders of the Synod had been disregarded. The Liberal officiaries of the consistories and presbyteries ..."

5. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"... as the well-being of individuals, as individuals, reverses the position, and knows nothing of persons, other than as properties, officiaries, subjects. ..."

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