The Collaborative International Dictionary
Functionary \Func"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl. Functionaries. [Cf. F. fonctionnaire.] One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
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n. (plural of functionary English)
Usage examples of "functionaries".
War on Sunday, on the old calendar and on fasting, obligatory rest on the décadi under penalty of fine and imprisonment,[92] obligatory fêtes on the anniversaries of January 21 and Fructidor 18, participation of all functionaries with their cult, obligatory attendance of public and private instructors with their pupils of both sexes at civic ceremonies, an obligatory liturgy with catechisms and programmes sent from Paris, rules for scenic display and for singings, readings, postures, acclamations and imprecations.
And the new functionaries will certainly go to work at once, each in his office.
He not only insults petitioners, but likewise the functionaries under him who make reports to him, or take his orders.
Oh, for the time when functionaries shall be rare, when the wicked shall be overthrown, when the law shall become the sole functionary in society!
This discouraging state of things simply results from the weakness, inexperience, ignorance, apathy and immorality of the public functionaries who, since the 18th of Fructidor, year V.
He curses Madame Barbé-Marbois who comes to take leave of her husband, dismissing on the spot the commandant of the gendarmerie who supports her in a swoon, and, noticing the respect and attentions which all the inhabitants, even the functionaries, show to the prisoners, he cries out, "Well, what airs and graces for people that will perhaps be dead in three or four days!
Public functionaries whom the law summons to them, and many of these fêtes often dispense with them.
Instead of putting republicans, but above all, honest, wise and enlightened men in the place of the functionaries and employees dismissed or revoked, the selections dictated by the new Councils fell for the most part on anarchists and men of blood and robbery.
These Nazi functionaries sunned themselves in our success, as though the achievement had been theirs.
The army supply units had soon been followed by the first Party functionaries, who took over civilian control and treated the population, who had often begun by greeting us as liberators, in the manner decreed by the Party and Propaganda Minister Goebbels, as "subhumans of an inferior race.
In Smolensk, too, the Nazi functionaries would have made themselves at home.
The news coming in from the eastern front, the air raids, which were becoming ever more frequent, life on ration cards and the arrogant behavior of Nazi functionaries were sapping the vital energy of the Berliners, who were otherwise so quick-witted and full of zest for life.
Dagmar slowly lost her aversion to all things military, which she regarded, along with'party functionaries, as the quintessence of the power of the Third Reich.
The Party functionaries, who greeted us at some of the stations, displayed an "unbroken will to Final Victory"ut were quick to seek safety whenever the enemy came near them.
Other under-natchainiks and functionaries appeared to see for themselves.