What is "functionary"

Usage examples of "functionary".

Floyt, an Earthservice accessor of the grade functionary third class, it was all quite intoxicating.

Richard, with the wisp of hair pasted across baldness common to every senior French functionary, alopecia being the natural consequence of chicanery, was even better.

And since at the source of this universal order there is no personal god or willing being, but only an absolutely impersonal force or void, beyond thought, beyond being, antecedent to categories, there has finally never been anyone anywhere responsible for anything -- the gods themselves being merely functionaries of an ever-revolving kaleidoscope of illusory appearances and disappearances, world without end.

Lourdusamy -- then a young, minor functionary in the Vatican diplomatic machine -- with guiding the anguished and pain-ridden ex-Hyperion pilgrim, Father Lenar Hoyt, to finding the secret that tamed the cruciform to an instrument of resurrection.

Though she had alsof expected messengers to precede her, she was not pre-j pared for the onslaught of guards, cubiculars, logothetes, and the rest of the army of palace functionaries who waited outside, and swept her into their complex wake.

The Imaum appears to be the highest functionary, and performs what are regarded as the most sacred rites of Islamism.

This functionary, however well disposed to my friend, could not altogether conceal his chagrin at the turn which affairs had taken, and was fain to indulge in a sarcasm or two, about the propriety of every person minding his own business.

Years afterwards, in Brisbane, upon the occasion of a great political ceremony--the laying of a foundation-stone or something of the sort, at which I, as the daughter of one of the public functionaries, occupied a prominent position--I felt considerably embarrassed when Tombo, scantily clad, reeking of tobacco, with a dirty clay pipe thrust in his woolly locks, advancing from the crowd, seized my hand, and greeted me with effusion.

They were certainly much closer to the People so freely apostrophized by the Third Estate than the lawyers, functionaries and professional men who made up that body.

He wanted to find out who was living in the Hydropathic, and he did not want to trouble the higher functionaries.

The deal would be finalized and the Minstrel Boy would be able to collect the balance of his cash after the report from the official valuer, an independent functionary whose word was absolute in all major sales to the house.

Jimmy stood in the Port Authority office dealing with a minor functionary as everyone else was off to watch the cortege leave the city.

The functionary who had tried to keep her from seeing General Aur held an archaic particle weapon poised in his hand.

Catholic priest in the Americas named Father Sandoval wrote back to a church functionary in Europe to ask if the capture, transport, and enslavement of African blacks was legal by church doctrine.

Melbourne was a melting pot of the dynamic and hopeless: the pioneers who wanted to carve a future out of the bushland, newly released convicts, dispossessed Aborigines stupefied with rum, government functionaries building a curriculum vitae to take elsewhere, speculators growing rich on credit, and speculators going bankrupt for the lack thereof.