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officiality|əfɪʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[a. F. officialité (1285 in sense 1, in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. late L. officiālitās, f. officiāl-is official: see -ity.]
1. The office or dignity of an ecclesiastical official (official n. 2); the court of such, or the building in which it assembles. Obs. exc. Hist.
a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 288 Bird, who had the Officiality of the place. 1692Wood Life 3 Oct. (O.H.S.) III. 403 Mr. Jonas Proast..had the officiality of Berks confer'd on him by Mr. William Richards archdeacon of Berks. 1742Hume Ess., Miracles (1817) II. 463 note, Many of the miracles of Abbé Paris were proved immediately before the officiality, or bishop's court, at Paris. 1858Neale Hist. Jansenist Ch. Introd. 49 The officiality was, for some time, kept open both by night and by day.
2. = officialism. rare.
1841Carlyle Heroes vi. 347 To us it is no dilettante work, no sleek officiality. 1858― Fredk. Gt. I. iii. x. 277 ‘Philip is not permitted to go’, said Imperial Officiality. 1881Daily Tel. 4 Feb., It may be surmised that officiality will not offer any objections.
b. Something official; an official post, notice, duty, etc.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. i, [He] held some ‘obedientia’, subaltern officiality there. 1862― Fredk. Gt. (1872) III. ix. iii. 92 An actual Prussian Commissary hangs out his announcements and officialities at Donauwörth. 1867― Remin. (1881) II. 155 A cheerful, lively element, in spite of Reform Bills and officialities..which, before long, supervened. |