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Word Meanings - DIGNITARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

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  • OFFICIALISM
    The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
  • OFFICIALTY
    The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
  • DIRECTORY
    Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  • MANAGERY
    1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
  • DIRECTORSHIP
    The condition or office of a director; directorate.
  • CONDUCTOR
    The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
  • ADMINISTRATORSHIP
    The position or office of an administrator.
  • DIRECTORIAL
    1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
  • OFFICER
    Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
  • MANAGERIAL
    Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.
  • DIGNITARY
    One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
  • CONDUCTORY
    Having the property of conducting.
  • DIRECTORATE
    The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
  • OFFICIALLY
    By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
  • OFFICIAL
    Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
  • FUNCTIONARY
    One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
  • ADMINISTRATOR
    A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority. (more info) 1. One who administers affairs; one who
  • DIRECTOR
    A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
  • MANAGERSHIP
    The office or position of a manager.
  • OFFICIALITY
    See OFFICIALTY
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • INOFFICIALLY
    Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
  • GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
    A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
  • RADIOCONDUCTOR
    A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
  • EXTRA-OFFICIAL
    Not prescribed by official duty.
  • INOFFICIAL
    Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.
  • SUBOFFICER
    An under or subordinate officer.
  • UNDEROFFICER
    A subordinate officer.
  • NONCONDUCTOR
    A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of

 

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