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rlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.

An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate.

.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.

otely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.

One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station. Hume.

To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. I do invest you jointly with my power. Shak.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.

rge wooden screw turning in a nut attached to the crosspiece of a rude press. -- Jack-in-office, an insolent fellow in authority. Wolcott. -- Jack-in-the-bush (Bot.), a tropical shrub with red fruit (Cordia Cylindrostachya). -- Jack-in-the-green, a chimney sweep inclosed in a framework of boughs, carried in Mayday p…

ing a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.

r-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

The chief or leader of a hand or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army. [Written also jemadar, jamadar.]

A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods. [Eng.] [Written also jerguer.]

or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and col…

The office of a judge.

on of a judge or court. Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce. Milton.