officialty (of is halt i)

[ official + -ty.] Eccles.: ( a ) The charge or office of an official. Ayliffe. (b) The court or jurisdiction of which an official is head. (c) The building in which an ecclesiastical court or other deliberative or governing body a embles, or has its official seat; a chapter-house: as, the officialty of the Cathedral of Sens in France. Also officiality. officiant (o-fish'i-ant), n. [ IMG:content-1658.png:[blocks in formation] offing officiate (o-fish'i-at), v.; pret. and pp. officiated, ppr. officiating. [ IMG:content-1659.png:[blocks in formation]