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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Office \Of"fice\, n. [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops
     ability, wealth, help + facere to do or make. See {Opulent},
     {Fact}.]
     1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by
        appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary
        duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to


        man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
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              I would I could do a good office between you.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by
        authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or
        authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal
        office.
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     3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God
        himself; as, the office of a priest under the old
        dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
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              Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
              magnify mine office.                  --Rom. xi. 13.
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     4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done,
        by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to
        perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent
        beings.
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              They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Hesperus, whose office is to bring
              Twilight upon the earth.              --Milton.
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              In this experiment the several intervals of the
              teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
                                                    --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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     5. The place where any kind of business or service for others
        is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in
        which public officers or workers in any organization
        transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's
        office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office.
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     6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose
        place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the
        office.
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     7. pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics
        discharge the duties attached to the service of a house,
        as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.]
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              As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     8. (Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the
        Mass; any prescribed religious service.
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              This morning was read in the church, after the
              office was done, the declaration setting forth the
              late conspiracy against the king's person. --Evelyn.
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     {Holy office}. Same as {Inquisition}, n., 3.
  
     {Houses of office}. Same as def. 7 above. --Chaucer.
  
     {Little office} (R. C. Ch.), an office recited in honor of
        the Virgin Mary.
  
     {Office bearer}, an officer; one who has a specific office or
        duty to perform.
  
     {Office copy} (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a
        record, from the proper office. See {Certified copies},
        under {Copy}. --Abbott.
  
     {Office-found} (Law), the finding of an inquest of office.
        See under {Inquest}.
  
     {Office holder}. See {Officeholder} in the Vocabulary
  
     {Office hours}. the hours of the day during which business is
        transacted at an office[5].
  
     {Office seeker}. a person who is attempting to get elected to
        an elected office, or to get an appointment to an
        appointive public office.
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