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