单词 | officiality |
释义 | officialityn. 1. Christian Church. The office, jurisdiction, or dignity of an Official Principal (see official n.1 1); the court of this official, or the building in which it assembles. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > office of prelacya1387 pontificals?a1475 officialshipc1475 bishopric1520 high priesthood1535 superintendence1561 prelateship1570 pontificality1593 officiality1597 prelature1602 prelation1611 prelaty1641 pontificacy1665 pontificate1702 officialty1720 presulate1853 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > archbishop's court > [noun] audiencec1451 Court of Audience1467 Audience Court1593 prerogative1604 prerogative court1604 prerogative office1648 officiality1742 commissariat1762 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > other > [noun] > ecclesiastical court building officiality1858 1597 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) IV. 154/1 The citye of the auld toun of Abirdene hes bene of auld..foundit..for the habitatioun..of the bischopis seat, college and jurisdictioun of officialitie and commissary thairin. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 288 Bird, who had the Officiality of the place. 1692 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 403 Mr. Jonas Proast..had the officiality of Berks confer'd on him by Mr. William Richards archdeacon of Berks. 1742 D. Hume Miracles in Ess. (1817) II. 463 (note) Many of the miracles of Abbé Paris were proved immediately before the officiality, or bishop's court, at Paris. 1858 J. M. Neale Hist. Jansenist Church Introd. 49 The officiality was, for some time, kept open both by night and by day. 1899 H. M. Baird Theodore Beza iii. 49 One of the halls of the former ‘officiality’, or seat of the judge representing the late Bishop of Lausanne in the trial of ecclesiastical causes. 1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) at Sens The 13th-century Officiality..and the largely 16th-century Archbishop's Palace adjoin the cathedral. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy red tape1736 bureaucracy1815 bureauism1829 red-tapery1831 red-tapism1834 officiality1841 functionarism1842 officialism1849 red-tapedom1850 red tapeworm1851 tapism1852 green-ferret1853 officialty1853 paperasserie1856 paperchase1856 paper-chasing1876 departmentalism1886 Whitehallism1915 striped trousers1958 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 347 To us it is no dilettante work, no sleek officiality. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. x. 277 ‘Philip is not permitted to go’, said Imperial Officiality. 1881 Daily Tel. 4 Feb. It may be surmised that officiality will not offer any objections. b. Something official; an official action, post, notice, duty, etc.; official authority or sanction. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > an official post officialry1489 government office1750 officiality1843 society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill > types of window bill?1790 showcard1826 officiality1843 window card1846 star bill1876 one-sheet1895 stickyback1903 hanger1905 wanted poster1925 dazibao1960 wall-poster1962 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. i. 55 [He] held some ‘obedientia’, subaltern officiality there. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. iii. 417 An actual Prussian Commissary hangs out his announcements and officialities at Donauwörth. a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 155 A cheerful, lively element, in spite of Reform Bills and officialities..which, before long, supervened. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xxi. 169 Those who have to keep the avenues free for witnesses..will regard you from first to last as a disagreeable excrescence on the officialities of the work on hand. 1956 Jrnl. Politics 18 128 The unlamented NRA gave the steel industry's restrictive practices the color of temporary officiality. 1995 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 20 851 One may phrase a request as a general rule in order to invoke an air of officiality: ‘Regulations dictate that I require you to extinguish all smoking materials at this time.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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