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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of officiate.

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Examples

  • Dianne Feinstein officiated the civil ceremony, which was followed by a Catholic service.

    Matthew Yglesias » Historical Sex Scandals 2010

  • A possible reason that American sports may be more fairly officiated is that the games are very stop/start so there are opportunities to review contentious plays.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right: 2010

  • The priest officiated from a table in the center of the room, on which he placed two candles, an Arabic Bible, and a sacred picture, all of which he took out of a brown valise.

    Tish 1916

  • However, when the day of the burial came, Bishop Willis of the English Church adapted himself to the circumstances, and officiated from the Congregational pulpit with the ritual of his own church; after which, with all the pomp and splendor due to her state as a queen amongst the sovereigns of the Hawaiian people, she was borne up the Nuuanu Valley, and laid by the side of her husband, Alexander Liholiho, or Kamehameha IV.

    Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen 1898

  • Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach."

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach."

    Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Baxter's early religious teachers were more exceptionable than even the maudlin mummer whom Roberts speaks of, one of them being "the excellentest stage - player in all the country, and a good gamester and goodfellow, who, having received Holy Orders, forged the like for a neighbor's son, who on the strength of that title officiated at the desk and altar; and after him came an attorney's clerk, who had tippled himself into so great poverty that he had no other way to live than to preach."

    Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • And I had the great joy of taking part in a dear friend's civil unionization last summer being rather well spoken, I "officiated" the ceremony - in the nude.

    WTF Do I Do? Why, Social Psychology of course! JLK 2009

  • Sometimes a white minister read the Bible service, but usually a Negro preacher [HW: "officiated"].

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

  • He "officiated" for the first time at a dance given by one of the younger McTurgs.

    Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

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