Officially
[ə'fɪʃəlɪ] or [ə'fɪʃəli]
Definition
(adv.) in an official role; 'officially, he is in charge'; 'officially responsible'.
Checker: Phelps--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in 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.
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Examples
- Schofield's loss, as officially reported, was 189 killed, 1,033 wounded, and 1,104 captured and missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She would officially succeed to the chamber she had rented so long. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Goebel's claims were not unknown to the Edison Company, for as far back as 1882 they had been officially brought to its notice coupled with an offer of sale for a few thousand dollars. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My own views at that time were like those officially expressed by Mr. Seward at a later day, that the war would be over in ninety days. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1854 he was appointed Dean of the F aculty of Sciences at Lille, a town then officially described as the richest center of industrial activity in the n orth of France. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own stately person she considered lunch a weakness. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Officially they remained external to human desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was officially accessible to every blundering old woman who had incoherence to bestow upon him, and readily received the Boffins. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We could have felt affluent if we had been officially surveyed and fenced in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was provided with a receipt and duly and officially accepted as an excursionist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The extreme southern end of Manhattan Island is both popularly and officially known as Battery Park because it was fortified in the seventeenth century for the protection of the town. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The loss of the enemy, as officially reported, was 642 men, killed, wounded and missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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