Word Meanings - EXTRA-OFFICIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not prescribed by official duty.

Related words: (words related to EXTRA-OFFICIAL)

• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• PRESCRIBER
  One who prescribes.
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• OFFICIAL
  Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
• OFFICIALITY
  See OFFICIALTY
• PRESCRIBE
  To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. (more info) 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• EXTRA-OFFICIAL
  Not prescribed by official duty.
• INOFFICIAL
  Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.
• EX-OFFICIAL
  Proceeding from office or authority.
• SEMIOFFICIAL
  Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.