Official (basketball): In basketball, an official (usually called a referee) enforces the rules and maintains order in the game. The title of official also applies to the scorers and timekeepers, as well as other personnel that have an active task in maintaining ... (Basketball) [91%] 2024-01-04 [Sports officiating] [Basketball referees]...
Official: An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of ... (Social) [91%] 2023-12-17 [Ecclesiastical titles] [Positions of authority]...
Official: An official is a person, who is either appointed or elected to a position or office of some authority which entails the discharge of some administrative duty. As an adjective, official means sanctioned by an authority such as government. [91%] 2023-03-07 [Government]
Official: Official, 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 ... [91%] 2022-09-02
United Tribes of New Zealand: The United Tribes of New Zealand (Māori: Te W(h)akaminenga o Ngā Rangatiratanga o Ngā Hapū o Nū Tīreni) was a confederation of Māori tribes based in the north of the North Island, existing legally from 1835 to 1840. It received diplomatic recognition ... (Māori confederation in northern New Zealand from 1835 to 1840) [86%] 2024-11-14 [Māori politics] [Treaty of Waitangi]...
Aristocracy of officials: "Aristocracy of officials" and "civil service aristocracy" (Danish and Norwegian: embedsaristokratiet or embetsaristokratiet) are terms used by historians to denote the elite social class (aristocracy) of university-educated higher state officials in Denmark and Norway from the early modern period ... (Social) [84%] 2024-11-22 [Elite theory]
Officiant: An officiant or celebrant is someone who officiates (i.e. leads) at a religious or secular service or ceremony, such as marriage (marriage officiant), burial, namegiving or baptism. (Leader of a service or ceremony) [81%] 2024-01-09 [Wedding ceremony participants] [Christian worship roles]...
Officinal: Officinal, a term applied in medicine to drugs, plants and herbs, which are sold in chemists' and druggists' shops, and to medical preparations of such drugs, &c., as are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by the pharmacopoeia. In ... [81%] 2022-09-02
Officinalis: Officinalis, or officinale, is a Medieval Latin epithet denoting organisms—mainly plants—with uses in medicine, herbalism and cookery. It commonly occurs as a specific epithet, the second term of a two-part botanical name. [81%] 2024-01-09 [Taxonomy (biology)] [Latin biological phrases]...
Officinal: Officinal drugs, plants and herbs are those which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop. Officinal medical preparations of such drugs are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by a pharmacopoeia. [81%] 2024-01-09 [Herbalism] [Pharmacopoeias]...
Officinal: Officinal drugs, plants and herbs are those which are sold in a chemist or druggist shop. Officinal medical preparations of such drugs are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by a pharmacopoeia. [81%] 2023-11-27 [Herbalism]
Officialese: Officialese, bureaucratese, or governmentese is language that sounds official. It is the "language of officialdom". (Social) [81%] 2023-11-13 [Political terminology]
The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge: The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge (OEB) presents comprehensive information on the card game contract bridge with limited information on related games and on playing cards. It is "official" in reference to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) which authorized its ... (Encyclopedia) [79%] 2022-06-29 [Contract bridge books] [20th-century encyclopedias]...
Official Guide of the Railways: The Official Railway Guide, originally the Official Guide of the Railways, was a quarterly magazine that published travel information. Originally produced by National Railway Publication Company of New York City from 1868, the guide was last published by IHS Markit ... (Magazine on rail transport) [79%] 2024-01-12 [Magazines established in 1868] [Rail transportation in the United States]...
The Official Bootleg: The Official Bootleg is a live album by Rudess/Morgenstein Project, made up of Jordan Rudess and Rod Morgenstein, released in 2001. The album is made up of tracks recorded during live shows taking place from April 1997 to February ... [79%] 2023-12-15 [2001 live albums] [Jordan Rudess albums]...
The United: The United (Arabic: المتحدين) is an unreleased film produced by Touchstone Pictures. It was conceived as Disney's first ever Arabic-language film, intended primarily for Middle Eastern audiences. [79%] 2024-01-01 [Unreleased films] [Touchstone Pictures films]...