Definition of Officiary

1. a. Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.

Definition of Officiary

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Officiary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officiary

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

Literary usage of Officiary

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

1. The American Magazine of Civics edited by Andrew J. Palm, Henry Randall Waite (1895)
"... and municipal—as to make Ma necessary that some powerful moral force be speedily brought? to bear in the selection of an officiary, from the lowest to ..."

2. History of All the Religious Denominations in the United States: Containing by Israel Daniel Rupp (1849)
"The trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, hearing of this movement, were equally dissatisfied ; also the entire officiary and laity of said ..."

3. The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation by George Mackenzie (1708)
"Comes and 2)кх, being fir ft at the King's will, and only officiary, became afterward to be join'd with Feuds, ..."

4. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, Queensland Palaeontographical Society (1896)
"[These things were done in the presence of John Barnet, officiary of Canterbury ... officiary of Winchester; ..."

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