How To Use Officiate In A Sentence

  • He "officiated" for the first time at a dance given by one of the younger McTurgs. Prairie Folks
  • As the Archbishop of Bordeaux is in your entourage, he could officiate. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Bryan also officiates at the Speedo Championship sectional Series as well as the Central Zone Championships.
  • The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
  • Bishop Silvester officiated at the funeral.
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  • The promoter, who also officiates on the junior grasstrack scene, spotted Complin several years ago and marked him down as one for the future.
  • Sandy's friend, the Anglican priest and rector of St. Anne's, the Reverend John Gordon, would officiate.
  • The priest who officiated at the wedding welcomed me equally as a co-celebrant.
  • The primary focus of interest was as to who would "officiate" during his hospitalisation. The Hindu - Front Page
  • As Don was in the area, he was also called upon to officiate at another special event, the official opening to the school greenhouse.
  • In the past, she's officiated at some of his games but doles out absolutely no favoritism.
  • A cousin of the bride celebrated the Mass and officiated at the ceremony.
  • I counsel couples seeking marriage and officiate at their weddings.
  • Tommy officiated at the Mass and said the graveside prayers.
  • If, after wading through the details above, you still want go through with it, you will need someone to officiate.
  • Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat set up a tent across the street to officiate Jewish ceremonies. For Same-Sex City Couples, Day 1 of 'I Do'
  • Hence, in the value equation, in which the coat is the equivalent of the linen, the coat officiates as the form of value. Skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 3A2.
  • Most typically, the pastor begins and closes the service, preaches the sermon or homily, officiates at the sacraments, if offered, and does the anointing.
  • 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:
  • These are, I take it, all referees below the Panel and those who officiate countrywide at some 2,000 games a week.
  • A memorial service was held yesterday at Wadhurst Parish Church. The Rev Michael Inch officiated.
  • Tack was her ordination sponsor and officiated at Smith's wedding.
  • I think the official should never be allowed to officiate another game in the Atlantic 10, in college basketball, in the United States. GW professor tossed from home finale
  • Referees generally officiate in their domestic leagues.
  • Even the pujari will continue to officiate in the temple within the complex.
  • He is still a priest although his right to officiate at Church sacraments was revoked by the Bishop of San Bernardino in 1994.
  • Currently two neutral umpires officiate in Test matches while one umpire from the home country stands with a neutral umpire in one-day internationals.
  • Official marriages, officiated by either religious authorities or by municipal clerks or judges, must be dissolved by the legal procedure of divorce.
  • In its wake incompetent men are appointed to officiate at international games, who are inconsistent in their decisions.
  • - he's rather ancient, but I'm sure he'd be delighted to officiate. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • From Oswestry he went to Donnington near Shrewsbury, where under a certain Scotchman named Douglas, who was an absentee, and who died Bishop of Salisbury, he officiated as curate and master of a grammar school for a stipend — always grudgingly and contumeliously paid — of three-and-twenty pounds a year. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude -- the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes. Peveril of the Peak
  • The Spa club requires umpires and linesmen to officiate at games with our own referees.
  • The primary focus of interest is who would "officiate" during his hospitalisation. Top Stories - Google News
  • 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
  • The very hall porter has gone out of town for his holiday, and the page-boy who officiates as temporary janitor is not quite certain about your name and gives you somebody else's letters. Echoes of the Week
  • Three bhikshus officiate during the bhikshuni ordination: [a bhikshu preceptor (mkhan-po, Skt. upadhyaya, Pali: upajjhaya) who has held bhikshu vows for at least ten years, a bhikshu procedural master, and a bhikshu instr u cting master for private matters]. A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Two: Day One
  • He was a qualified referee and officiated in the former Wharfedale League and the Red Triangle League.
  • 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
  • Ministers are already allowed to conduct marriage ceremonies outside churches and last year officiated at 380 such weddings, an increase of 41 on the previous year.
  • As the Archbishop of Bordeaux is in your entourage, he could officiate. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Anna and I were corralled into letting him officiate at our wedding ceremony. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • Dianne Feinstein officiated the civil ceremony, which was followed by a Catholic service. Matthew Yglesias » Historical Sex Scandals
  • He also officiated as master of ceremonies at the weddings, and occupied a conspicuous seat at the table when the "infair" came off. Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
  • I found it surprising that notifications of this nature are done solely by post but John assures me that this is how referees are notified about what matches they are to officiate.
  • He undertook to restore discipline in the army, and the licentious soldiery found a new candidate for the empire in the person of Avitus, of the family of Severus, a beautiful boy of seventeen, who officiated as priest of the sun in Syria, and whose name in history, from the god he served, is called Elagabalus, or Heliogabalus. Ancient States and Empires
  • Her ordination will allow her to officiate at weddings, baptisms, communions and funerals and is taking place on June 27 at 10 am.
  • Unlike in Christianity, marriage is not a sacrament, and monks do not officiate at wedding ceremonies.
  • 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
  • A growing number of abolitionists say it intimidates newcomers to court, gives self-importance to those who officiate there and makes the justice system look fusty, out of touch and just a little ridiculous.
  • The children were baptized by Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Rev. Wright also officiated at Obama's marriage.
  • This bishop officiated pontifically and gave his blessing to the people, before whom he appeared bearing the mitre, the crosier, and even the archiepiscopal cross. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • It was there that the Rishis and the gods Varuna, Agni, Prajapati, Narayana also called Hari, Mahadeva and the illustrious Grandsire of great splendour, appointed the resplendent Bhrigu to officiate at a sacrifice. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
  • The bishop officiated at the marriage.
  • We officiate at weddings, we help bury the dead, we counsel families with problems and we visit the sick.
  • 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
  • Requests for him to officiate at services outside a church building are up 25 percent.
  • When Ireland reviewed his credentials and saw he was a priest of the Byzantine church and a widower, Ireland refused to grant him faculties or permission to officiate.
  • Fr Percy officiated at the service at which everyone wept.
  • I am very happy to officiate at this hand-over of jerseys to the Nkwazi volleyball club.
  • A lama (Buddhist religious leader) officiates at the ceremony.
  • Benson D-Prince George's said she grew up watching her father officiate over weddings and came to believe that such unions should be reserved for people who can have children. Md.'s top leaders cross Catholic hierarchy on gay marriage
  • Last year members of the society officiated at 49 marriage services - up 80% on the previous year.
  • Yeah, and I'd say they "officiate" more than they "judge" anyway, so election official is an accurate description. Coleman Campaign Rejects Election Official's Ballot
  • During the Police Sport Meet held in March this year, he volunteered to officiate as a Judge in the Pole Vault event.
  • stoep" before the door, under the shade of a great button-wood tree, but all visits of form and state were received with something of court ceremony in the best parlor, where Antony the Trumpeter officiated as high chamberlain. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
  • Reggie Buddle, the man who posed as a combat-decorated Marine and military chaplain, wasn't authorized to officiate at veterans 'funerals, recruit new Marines, perform their marriages or baptize them before they went to Iraq, but for one family, he managed to do all four. Reggie Buddle
  • Their male counter-parts were needed to officiate in these events.
  • My character actually officiated at several marriage ceremonies.
  • Already the diocese of Boston has 200 such deacons, who can officiate at weddings, conduct funeral services, visit the sick, distribute Holy Communion - and preach.
  • He states that he remembers an old beadle of the church which was called "Haddo's Hole," and sometimes the "Little Kirk," in Edinburgh, whose son occasionally officiated as precentor.
  • The club will organise a Miss Kasama beauty contest to be officiated by First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa at Kasama Golf Club.
  • He is both PGA and R & A qualified and has officiated at several European Tour events including the British Masters and Murphy's Irish Open.
  • Another worrying factor is the appointment of referees to officiate in matches involving teams from their own backyards.
  • Bishop Silvester officiated at the funeral.
  • A priest officiated at the wedding.
  • Phillip E. Knight, officiated the ceremony, which took place at a resort in the British West Indies. R&B Singer Ameriie Marries
  • There is one Principal king at armes and 3 if not more other king at armes and other under herraulds and Sergeants, which all weare Coates with the kings armes all aboute it; these as I say officiates at the jnstalling for they record it and add the blew garter about such a Lords atchievement. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
  • On the entrance of His Holiness into the [Pauline] chapel, illuminated by 567 wax candles, the Verbum Caro is sung, and on arriving at the altar the Pope delivers the chalice containing the Sacrament to the Cardinal deacon who deposits it in the sepulchre where it is incensed by the Pope; Monsignor Sacrista locks the sepulchre and delivers the key to the Cardinal Penitentiary who is to officiate on the following day. Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times
  • But "Aaron" is frequently used for the whole priestly order, and in later times, any of the priests might have officiated at this altar in rotation (Lu 1: 9). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The Reverend Mr Smith will officiate at the wedding , ie perform the marriage ceremony.
  • Even in his last days he was fully conscious of his approaching end, and thought of the famous ringside battles at which he had officiated.
  • I learned a new word--concelebration, which is when more than one priest officiates. Time to Transubstantiate!
  • A German "woman bishop", who alledgedly had been ordained by an unnamed sympathetic real bishop, will "officiate" at tomorrow's ceremony. Archive 2006-07-30
  • As Brendan was leaving the church, and by this time definitely pushing his luck, he spoke to the priest who had officiated at the service.
  • A memorial service was held yesterday at Wadhurst Parish Church. The Rev Michael Inch officiated.
  • - he's rather ancient, but I'm sure he'd be delighted to officiate. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • He is accustomed to the use of thumbikins and the most approved and fashionable modes of torture; and officiated for many years as superintendent of the wheel of a foreign prince, renowned for the neatness of his rack. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
  • Catholic primate Archbishop Sean Brady will officiate at this morning's Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh.
  • He officiated at the service and later imparted Benediction to all present.
  • Fr. Peter Gannon celebrated the Mass and officiated at the ceremony.
  • The clubs thought that they had been assigned a referee who would officiate free of charge, and quite naturally refused to pay up.
  • Behind a long table, on which were several books, sat a smart underbred-looking man, wearing his own hair tied in a club, and who, from the quire of paper laid before him, and the pen which he handled at my entrance, seemed prepared to officiate as clerk. Redgauntlet
  • It was always going to be a difficult game to officiate given Tyrone's willingness to hit the deck but White punished petulance as well as could have been expected.
  • Over 10,000 volunteers have been recruited to officiate at events and to assist in other capacities.
  • A referee from a neutral country will officiate at the competition.
  • Anna and I were corralled into letting him officiate at our wedding ceremony. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • Who officiated at your wedding?
  • They represent their town at functions and those chosen to represent Wiltshire might also be asked to officiate at events across the county.
  • At the initial condolence ceremony, the marabout officiates, transmitting his religious blessing or benediction (called al baraka) to the guests.
  • Local people enjoyed a busy fun day at the opening celebration with games and stalls and Mr Shepherd stepped in to officiate at the launch.
  • Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude — the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes. Peveril of the Peak
  • The first priest to officiate at a service in the church since the 1770s, he led the prayers at annual graveyard Mass for the assembly of over 300 people.
  • 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!
  • Many still officiate at weddings with little or no regard for premarital education.
  • I can recall the clamouring throng who pressed round for the final omelette as Mertz officiated at the stove just before we left on the 10th. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Torn by the collision of faith and rage, she has not officiated at a church service since her daughter died, and although she has not quit the priesthood, her faith is nuanced by doubt.
  • His wife officiated as his private secretary
  • Anna and I were corralled into letting him officiate at our wedding ceremony. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • Nominations were finalised for the election of a new committee and we were pleased to welcome Mary who came to officiate also two ladies from Perry Street who acted as tellers and counted all the votes.
  • Mr Ellis was selected to officiate at a cup game between Grimsby and Rotherham.
  • After May 31 only valid licence holders will be considered for ranking, to the National Pool, training and selecting teams for foreign competitions and commissaires to officiate at races.

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