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One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

emory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.

as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

me who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

ing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

sar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet, now they fright me. Shak. Master of ceremonies, an officer who determines the forms to be observed, or superintends their observance, on a public occasion. -- Not to stand on ceremony, not to be ceremonious; to be familiar, outspoken, or bold.

s whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

o a person as not legally qualifed to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. [U. S.] Challenge to the array (Law), an exception to the whole panel. -- Challenge to the favor, the alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon i…

or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.