Office

Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]

In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.

His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office.

The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]

To show their loue in this last office done To a dead friend.

I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.

The office, or Introite, (as they call it).

When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.

Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.

[…]in as moche as I am the apoſtle off the gentyls I will magnify myn office[…]

I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.

Fla.[…]Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out[…]

The Tories had been in office ten years.

Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place, And you shall well be spar'd.

The Sun was ſunk, and after him the Starr / Of Heſperus, whoſe Office is to bring / Twilight upon the Earth[…]

The Antients would certainly have invoked the Goddeſs Flora for this Purpoſe, and it would have been no Difficulty for their Prieſts or Politicians to have perſuaded the People of the real Preſence of the Deity, though a plain Mortal had perſonated her, and performed her Office.

A woman[…]might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.

[…]there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend, the certain evils of such a choice.

In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.

I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,[…]and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.

These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast.

The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.

The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.

...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.

Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs, Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces...

One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.

I[…]am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices.

And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit of meekness.

[…]he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.

Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.

"[…]What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"

The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.

Now it came to paſſe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites[…]

Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor.

We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.

An English lawyer, whether barrister or solicitor, never has an office, but always chambers.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]

There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.

This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.

The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.

He's from our public relations office.

The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.

They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office.

He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.

But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities.

Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office?

[…]there are advertising offices, and[…]by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.

[…]a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon[…]had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.

As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.

... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...

A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.

Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.

The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it.

Aft of the lobby... is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.

If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.

If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.

All hunt in James Whitendales office.

His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.

I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.

In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’

[…]For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin?

Ped. Now Mr. Office: What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils?

Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart Intirely honour[…]

Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature.

I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.

The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs / Of office, or the House of Office[…]

[…]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]

At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) / All Offices of ours are out of Door[…]

Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA?

Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building.

"I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.