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Definition of Officially

1. Adverb. In an official role. "Officially responsible"

2. Adverb. With official authorization. "The club will be formally recognized"

Definition of Officially

1. adv. 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 verified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

Definition of Officially

1. Adverb. In an official manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Officially

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officially

officialese officialeses officialisation officialise officialised officialising officialism officialisms officialities officiality

officialization officialize officialized officializes officializing officially (current term) officials officialties officialty officiant

officiants officiaries officiary officiate officiated officiates officiating officiation officiations officiator

Literary usage of Officially

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The accompanying table shows their areas, and population figures as officially estimated in 1896; since which there has been no attempt at enumeration. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... and even then, though the Roman breviary, missal, pontifical, and ceremonial were officially sanctioned, there was no single rituale. Paul V. (1605-21), ..."

3. History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"The republican convention made no provision for officially notifying their candidates of their nominations, and therefore there was no opportunity for a ..."

4. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"From him they had in due form received what, they imagined, they were officially bound to consider as satisfactory evidence of the repeal of these decrees, ..."

5. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"... and as the possibility of registering trade-marks officially will doubtless greatly increase their value, and thus lead to an extended use of them, ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1832)
"By ASHBEL SMITH, MD of North Carolina, officially attached to the Necker Hospital, during the pre- Talence of the Epidemic. New York, Peter Hill, 1832. pp. ..."

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