office (of is)

[ Let no preacher be negligent in doing his office . Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. The way to increase spiritual comforts is to be strict in the offices of humble obedience. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 62. Scott , Kenilworth, xix. So, Jack Tapster, do me thine office . 2. That which is performed or is intended or a igned to be done by a particular thing, or which anything is fitted to perform or custom arily performs; function. My voice had lost his office & was dead. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 138 In this experiment, the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms. Newton , Opticks. The office of geometry, he [Plato] said, was to discipline the mind, not to minister to the base wants of the body. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 3. A position or situation to which certain duties are attached; a post the po e ion of which imposes certain duties upon the po e or and confers authority for their performance; a post or place held by an officer, an official, or a functionary. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office . Rom. xi. 13. An office is a right to exercise an employment, public or private, as in the case of bailiffs, receivers, and the like. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, I. 123, note. 4. Specifically, a position of authority under a government: as, a man in office; to accept office. În law: ( a ) The right and duty conferred on an individual to perform any part of the functions of government, and receive such compensation, if any, as the law may affix to the service: more specifically called public office. It im plies authority to exercise some part of the power of the state, a tenure of right therein, some continuous duration, and usually emoluments. It is often defined simply as a public charge or employment; but there are many instances of public charge or employment which are not in law deemed offices, such as the service of a janitor, or that of a person designated by special act to buy goods for public use. In early English law office was regarded as a right, and could be conferred on a man and his heirs. In United States law it is a duty or agency conferred for public benefit; and, although the tenure is to some extent officer Wolves and bears, ... Casting their savagene aside, have done Like offices of pity. Shak., W. T., ii. 3. 189. I am a man that hath not done your love All the worst offices . B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. My Lord of Leicester hath done some good Offices to accommodate Matters. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 4. 10. Eccles .: ( a ) The prescribed order or form for presc a service of the church, or for devotional use, or the service so prescribed; especially, the forms for the canonical hours collectively (the divine office ): as, the communion office , the confirmation office , the office of prime, etc.; to recite office. (b) In the Moz arabic and in some old Gallican and monastic liturgies, in the Uses of Sarum and York, and in the Anglican Prayer book of 1549, the introit. Also officium . (c) In canon law, a benefice which carries no jurisdiction with it.-111. Mark of authority; badge of office. The aumenere a rod schalle haue in honde, As office for almes, y vndurstonde. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 324. Ambrosian office. See Ambrosian2.- Arms of office, in her . See arm2 , 7.- Circumlocution Office. See cir cum locution.- Color of office. See color. - Cook's office, the galley. [Naut. slang.] - Crown office. See crown. Dead-letter office. See dead . --- Divine office. See def. 10 and divine . - Foreign office. See foreign. - Holy Office, the Inquisition: this title, however, properly belongs to the "Congregation" established at Rome by Pope Paul III. in 1542, to which the direction of the tribunal of the Inquisition is subject.-Home Office. See home . - House of officet. See housel . - Hydrographic, imprest, intelligence, land, etc., office. See the qualifying words. - Jack in office, Jack out of office. See Jack1.- Little office of the Ble ed Virgin, a collection of psalms, le ons, and hymns in honor of the Virgin Mary, arranged in imitation of the breviary, and formerly appointed in the Roman Catholic Church to be read by certain religious in addition to the divine office. Military office. See military, 2.-Ministerial offices, Moz arabic office, naval office. See the adjectives. - Oath of office. See oath. Occasional office, the form for a religious service which does not recur at stated intervals, but is limited to certain occasions or relates to certain individuals only; a service other than the holy communion or daily prayers. Such occasional offices in the Book of Common Prayer are those for baptism, confirmation, matrimony, visitation of the sick, burial of the dead, institution of a minister, etc. Office copy, in law. See copy. - Office found, in law, the finding of a jury in an inquest of office by which the crown becomes entitled to take po e ion of real or personal property. See inquest. - Office hours, the hours during which offices are open for the transaction of busine .-Office of detail. See detail. - To give the office, to suggest as a job; furnish a hint; supply information. [Slang, Eng.]=Syn. Busine , Pursuit, etc. (see occupation ), post, situation, place, capacity. = officet (of'is), v. t. [OF. off icier, F. off icier Sp. oficiar = Pg. officiar = It. officiare, uffiziare, Cf. officiate.] 1. To per Shall I stay here to do 't? no, no, although The air of paradise did fan the house, And angels officed all. Shak . , All's Well, iii. 2. 128. a proposal. Bought by inches with the bribe of more offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton , Eikon ok las tes.