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Official

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

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Accredited 84% connected

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Accredited 84% connected

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Commissioned 84% connected

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Commissioned 84% connected

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Constituted 84% connected

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Constituted 84% connected

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Established 84% connected

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Established 84% connected

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Ex officio 84% connected

From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.

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Ex officio 84% connected

From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.

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Formal 84% connected

See Methylal.

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Formal 84% connected

See Methylal.

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Formalized 84% connected

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Formalized 84% connected

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Licensed 84% connected

of License

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Licensed 84% connected

of License

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Regular 84% connected

Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular…

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Regular 84% connected

Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular…

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Semiofficial 84% connected

Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.

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Semiofficial 84% connected

Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement.

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Adjudicator 76% connected

One who adjudicates.

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Narrower term 48

Agent 76% connected

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

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Appointee 76% connected

A person appointed.

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Bailiff 76% connected

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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Beadle 76% connected

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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Bureaucrat 76% connected

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

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Censor 76% connected

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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Diplomat 76% connected

Alt. of Diplomate

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Diplomatist 76% connected

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

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Dispatcher 76% connected

One who dispatches.

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Doorkeeper 76% connected

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

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Enumerator 76% connected

One who enumerates.

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Equerry 76% connected

A large stable or lodge for horses.

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Incumbent 76% connected

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

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Inquisitor 76% connected

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.

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Judge 76% connected

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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Jurist 76% connected

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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Justice 76% connected

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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Licenser 76% connected

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

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Mace 76% connected

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

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Macer 76% connected

A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

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Mandarin 76% connected

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

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Notary 76% connected

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

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Noticer 76% connected

One who notices.

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Nullifier 76% connected

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

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Officeholder 76% connected

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

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Officer 76% connected

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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Proconsul 76% connected

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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Prosecutor 76% connected

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

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Provincial 76% connected

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

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Quaestor 76% connected

Same as Questor.

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Ranger 76% connected

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

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Recorder 76% connected

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

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Recruiter 76% connected

One who, or that which, recruits.

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Referee 76% connected

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

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Registrar 76% connected

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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Regulator 76% connected

One who, or that which, regulates.

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Scorer 76% connected

One who, or that which, scores.

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Sealer 76% connected

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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Searcher 76% connected

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

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Starter 76% connected

One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

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Teller 76% connected

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

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Timekeeper 76% connected

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

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Timer 76% connected

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses,…

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Umpire 76% connected

A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cri…

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Usher 76% connected

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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Vizier 76% connected

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

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Voider 76% connected

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

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Weigher 76% connected

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

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Authority 74% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Authority 74% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Office 74% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Office 74% connected

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the rel…

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Officiate 74% connected

To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

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Officiate 74% connected

To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

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Authoritative 66% connected

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

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Authoritative 66% connected

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

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Authority 66% connected

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authori…

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Functionary 92% connected

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

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Prescribed 92% connected

of Prescribe

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