Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eccles.: The charge or office of an official.
- noun The court or jurisdiction of which an official is head.
- noun The building in which an ecclesiastical court or other deliberative or governing body assembles, or has its official seat; a chapter-house: as, the officialty of the Cathedral of Sens in France. Also
officiality .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The charge,
office , court, orjurisdiction of anofficial .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everything I hear about the US healthcare system sounds to me like an officialty of mobsters.
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Ducange relates a sentence of the officialty of Viviers, upon one William, who having been elected fool-bishop in 1400, had refused to perform the solemnities and to defray the expenses customary on such occasions.
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Pius VII. would not yield; but Napoleon found greater servility in the metropolitan officialty of Paris; and October 6, 1806, he secured a sentence pronouncing the nullity of his brother Jerome's marriage with
The Court of the Empress Josephine Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867
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No doubt it will be old news by that time, -- next Thursday, -- but publication in the press gives it the importance of officialty. "
Quill's Window George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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