office
/ˈɔ.fɪs/ noun A1- A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
- The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- A daily service without the eucharist.
- The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons. · In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
- Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- Last rites.
- A position of responsibility. · When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.· Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.
Plural offices
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Napoleon would, doubtless, have deprived Villefort of his office had it not been for Noirtier, who was all powerful at court, and thus the Girondin of ’93 and the Senator of 1806 protected him who so lately had been his protector.
The king’s procureur alone was deprived of his office, being suspected of royalism.
“You told me that he had some small office under the British government.”
Really impossible for a minister who has an office, agents, spies, and fifteen hundred thousand francs for secret service money, to know what is going on at sixty leagues from the coast of France!
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