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Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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A person appointed.

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Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to…

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A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.

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An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

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One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals a…

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Alt. of Diplomate

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A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat.

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One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

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One who enumerates.

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A large stable or lodge for horses.

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Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.

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An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.

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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

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The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practi…

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One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

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A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.

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A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

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A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

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One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

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One who notices.

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One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

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An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.

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One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police office…

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An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually…

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One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.

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Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

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Same as Questor.

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One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

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One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

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One who, or that which, recruits.

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One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

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One who, or that which, regulates.

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One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.

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One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.

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One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

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An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strang…

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A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.

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One who, or that which, voids, /mpties, vacates, or annuls.

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One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.

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

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