Word Meanings - OFFICIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• COMMUNICATIVENESS
  The quality of being communicative. Norris.
• VEST
  and E. wear: cf. F. veste. See Wear to carry on the person, and cf. 1. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. In state attended by her maiden train, Who bore the vests that holy rites
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PURSUANCE
  1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after. Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. Jer. Taylor. 2. The state of being pursuant; consequence. In pursuance of, in accordance with;
• VESTRY
  A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal
• VESTLET
  Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth
• VESTIBULAR
  Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
• COMMUNICATIVE
  Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.
• VESTING
  Cloth for vests; a vest pattern.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• VESTIGIAL
  Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a vestige.
• VESTIGATE
  To investigate.
• VESTITURE
  In vestiture.
• VESTED
  Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. Vested legacy , a legacy the right to which commences in præsenti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• VESTALES
  A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
  Imparting or communicating by its own powers.
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• ESPECIALNESS
  The state of being especial.
• REVESTTURE
  Vesture. Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.