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Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. Shak.

The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.

See Officialty.

n pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.

Proceeding from office or authority.

Not prescribed by official duty.

Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering.

Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.

Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.

on on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

An official messenger and representative.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of 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.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

ment for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.