officer

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · p. 9

t. [OFFICER, 8.] To furnish or provide with officers; to appoint officers over. "His army was more numerous, better officered, and better disciplined than that of the allies."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xx. "Merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot." Milton: P. L. , viii. 22.