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Definition of Officiates
1. officiate [v] - See also: officiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Officiates
Literary usage of Officiates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1813)
"CHAP. XXV. The Government and Death qf Jovian.—Elec- tion of Valentinian, who
officiates his Brother Valens, and makes the ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"He officiates at Oxford as Vice Principal of New Inn Hull. His lecture on " men
running away with maidens. " He takes pupils. His anecdotes of Dr. John. in ..."
3. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1823)
"... anf CURATE, the lowest degree in the church of England ; he who represents
the incumbent of a church, parson, or vicar, and officiates in his stead : he ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... than eat and drink at the expense of a party at an election, when he officiates
as one of the judges; the county commissioners provide for the gentlemen ..."
5. Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury by Walter Farquhar Hook (1875)
"Grindal officiates at the consecration of certain bishops.—Convocation of 1580.—He
renews his metropolitical visitation, and appoints Whitgift as his deputy ..."