Official
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
Discharging an office or function.
One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
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Official Quotations
Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
Ann Coulter
It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
David Letterman
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
Gregory Bateson
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Marilyn vos Savant
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
Klaus Kinski
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel
Official Translations
official in Afrikaans is amptelik, offisieel
official in Danish is embedsmand
official in Dutch is ambtelijk, officieel
official in Finnish is virkailija
official in French is oficiel, fonctionnaire, officiel, officiel
official in German is Amts.., amtlich, Beamter, offiziell, amtlich
official in Italian is ufficiale, ufficiale, funzionario
official in Latin is persona
official in Spanish is oficial, oficial, funcionario
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