Definition of Functionaries

1. Noun. (plural of functionary) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Functionaries

1. functionary [n] - See also: functionary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Functionaries

functionalistic
functionalistically
functionalists
functionalities
functionality
functionalization
functionalizations
functionalize
functionalized
functionalizes
functionalizing
functionally
functionally complete
functionally illiterate
functionals
functionaries
functionary
functioned
functioning
functionings
functionless
functionlessness
functionlessnesses
functionoid
functionoids
functions
functome
functomes
functor
functorial

Literary usage of Functionaries

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

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"... Position of Government Officials and Municipal Functionaries during Occupation. although they must suffer for acts or omissions of others, ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The writ of mandamus is a prerogative writ issued by the government in its own name to its own functionaries, to redress or prevent a wrong done or ..."

3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Judiciary functionaries, to the directing portion of whom application is made, by applicants and their assistants, as per Section 2. victors, $c., ..."

4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Congratulations and Addresses by all the public Functionaries.—Conspiracy of Malet—very nearly succcessful.—How at last defeated. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"Bnt in regard to the acts of public functionaries, which have no relation, or only a slight relation, to the affairs of government,—such ..."

6. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"There were upper classes, such as the senatorial order and the functionaries ; and lower classes like the city plebeians (working-classes), ..."

7. Readings on the Relation of Government to Property and Industry by Samuel Peter Orth (1915)
"A GOVERNMENT OF LAW AS DISTINGUISHED FROM A GOVERNMENT OF Functionaries BY HON. HANNIS TAYLOR (From the Green Bag, September, 1906) Francis Lieber has told ..."

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