social function

“The Cadmuses and I have an important social function this evening.”

Simon & Schuster: Over the Edge

“While the club members were a little frightened at the idea of these East-siders coming, my guests understood and met every convention of the occasion before, during, and after dinner, as if it was an accustomed social function with them.”

My Memories of Eighty Years

“Sanitation, which is an important juridical and social function of the modern State, has made no little progress in Italy, where it is regulated, in general, for all the kingdom by the law of 7 August,”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent