OFFICIAL (

See also:

• LATE

Late

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• LAT

Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat.

See also:

• APPARITOR, or APPARATOR (Latin for a servant of a public official, from apparere, to attend in public)

apparitor, from officium,

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• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office,

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• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty)  , in general any holder of office under the state or a public body . In ecclesiastical law the word " official " has a special technical sense as applied to the official exercising a diocesan bishop's jurisdiction as his representative and in his name (see ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION) . The title of " official principal," together with that of " vicar-general," is in England now merged in that of " chancellor " of a diocese (see CHANCELLOR) .