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As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.

To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

f a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

The office or function of auditor.

The office of an augur. Merivale.

The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon.

ghtful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak.…

The office or dignity of an autocrat.

An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [Obs.]

A title of respect or honor given to European officers in East Indian state papers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.

The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court. The bail must be real, substantial bondsmen. Blackstone. A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at law. Kent.

An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

An officer who has charge of a ballot box. [Obs.] Harrington.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.