official

Speech parts

1. official - Noun

2. official - Adjective

3. official - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.

Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.

One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

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

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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Vera Brittain

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern

If you talk to an official you must talk rubles. Russian Proverb

The eyes that beheld the chief don't fear for a court official. African Proverb

The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar. Chinese Proverb

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