Word Meanings - EXTRA-OFFICIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not prescribed by official duty.
Related words: (words related to EXTRA-OFFICIAL)
- 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. - PRESCRIBER
One who prescribes. - 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. - OFFICIALITY
See OFFICIALTY - PRESCRIBE
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. Syn. -- To appoint; order; command; dictate; ordain; institute; establish. (more info) 1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to - INOFFICIALLY
Without the usual forms, or not in the official character. - 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. - EX-OFFICIAL
Proceeding from office or authority. - SEMIOFFICIAL
Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.