Definition of Ex officio

1. Adjective. By virtue of an office or position. "The head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board"

Similar to: Official

2. Adverb. By virtue of position. "The president sat on the committee ex officio"
Exact synonyms: By Right Of Office

Definition of Ex officio

1. Adjective. By virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ex Officio

ex-votos
ex-wife
ex-wives
ex.
exFAT
ex ante
ex cathedra
ex facie
ex gratia
ex hypothesi
ex libris
ex negativo
ex nihilo
ex nomine
ex nunc
ex officio (current term)
ex parte
ex post
ex post facto
ex professo
ex proprio motu
ex rerum natura
ex stock
ex stocks
ex tempore
ex tunc
ex vi termini
ex vivo
exa
exa-

Literary usage of Ex officio

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Robert's Rules of Order Revised for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry Martyn Robert (1915)
"Ex-Officio Members of Boards and Committees. Frequently boards and committees contain some members who are members by virtue of their office, and, ..."

2. Annals of Iowa by State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Division of Historical Museum and Archives, Frederick Lloyd, Samuel Storrs Howe, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan, Iowa Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept, Theodore Sutton Parvin (1901)
"Francis M. Drake, ex-officio 1896-189« Leslie M. Shaw, ex-officio 1898- ... Treasurer of State, ex-officio 184.7--1855 Henry W. Lathrop ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Defamation: With Forms of Pleadings by George Wingrove Cooke (1844)
"Form of ex officio Information for Libel upon a foreign Potentate ... 365 2. Form of ex officio Information for slanderous Words of the Sovereign 368 3. ..."

4. An Historical Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts: A Chapter in the by William Pierce (1908)
"The Oath ' ex officio.'—In connection with the High Commission and other ecclesiastical Courts, there was nothing more cruelly oppressive, more abhorrent to ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"About this time he was made a master in chancery, und was one of nine civilians who drew up an argument in support of oaths ex officio in ecclesiastical ..."

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