All 6 Uses of
officiate
in
Les Miserables
- On his return to the humble dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as his palace, he said to his sister, "I have just officiated pontifically."†
Chpt 1.1 *officiated = acted in an official capacity
- They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them by a serge curtain nine feet in height.†
Chpt 2.6officiating = acting in an official capacity
- She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns.†
Chpt 2.6
- Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the novices at the bottom, and you will have some idea of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service.†
Chpt 2.6
- M. the Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Pres ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated.†
Chpt 2.6officiated = acted in an official capacity
- He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.†
Chpt 3.4officiating = acting in an official capacity
Definition:
act in an official capacity -- such as when enforcing rules at a sports event or presiding over a wedding ceremony