Crossword clues for officiate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Officiate \Of*fi"ci*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Officiated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Officiating.] [LL. officiare. See Office.]
To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the
business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public
ceremony or service.
--Bp. Stillingfleet.
Officiate \Of*fi"ci*ate\, v. t. To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function. [Obs.]
Merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "to perform a duty," especially "to perform the duty of a priest," from Medieval Latin officiatum, from present participle of officiare "perform religious services," from Latin officium (see office). Related: Officiated; officiating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive transitive English) To perform the functions of some office. 2 (context intransitive transitive sports English) To serve as umpire or referee.
WordNet
v. act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding; "Who officiated at your wedding?"
perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function; "His wife officiated as his private secretary" [syn: function]
Usage examples of "officiate".
One day in the midst of a good Act of Contrition, Father Blau officiating with pious malice, I leaped from the box and sprinted down the aisle, never to return.
In all the great cities of the empire, the temples were repaired and beautified by the order of Maximin, and the officiating priests of the various deities were subjected to the authority of a superior pontiff destined to oppose the bishop, and to promote the cause of paganism.
After much uncording and dashing and knocking about of baggage, the person who officiated proceeded to drag open the suspected packages rather unceremoniously.
Another stood by with a plastic drip-feed while Conner officiated with all the unctuous politeness of an underpaid head waiter.
Pat Whatsit was officiating, and she took his money and handed him the name-tag and programme with her usual brisk efficiency.
In Chenango county, after the establishment of the church in New Berlin, he officiated at Sherburne and Mount Upton.
Objects of varying unattractiveness came and went, eulogised by the officiating priest, but coldly received by the congregation.
Rarely did a deacon officiate in any case, since the law of bed and board made a marriage.
He asked if John Tinker Meadows himself would be officiating, and she said the family had decided that Mary Margaret Meadows would perform the service.
Around the altar, a chorus of Syrian damsels performed their lascivious dances to the sound of barbarian music, whilst the gravest personages of the state and army, clothed in long Phoenician tunics, officiated in the meanest functions, with affected zeal and secret indignation.
These scenes are going on at some house or other every evening during the revival, nay, at many at the same time, for the churches and meeting-houses cannot give occupation to half the Itinerants, though they are all open throughout the day, and till a late hour in the night, and the officiating ministers succeed each other in the occupation of them.
Centuriate elections for consuls and praetors already been held, he would not have been able to officiate, for his status as praetor-elect would have disqualified him.
If by ill fate that day should come, my successor officiating in the vatical fields along the Tiber will already have ceased to be merely the chief of a gang, or of a band of sectarians, and will have become in his turn one of the universal figures of authority.
The few remaining taels went towards hiring the services of a coroner to officiate at the funeral ceremony, and a carpenter.
Another stood by with a plastic drip-feed while Conner officiated with all the unctuous politeness of an underpaid head waiter.