Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
Discharging an office or function.
Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
True, real, beyond doubt.
Approved by authority; authorized.
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.
Considered to be of, from, or in tune with the common people, rather than from a ruling elite.
In certain socialist states: of, from, or controlled (at least in name) by the common people rather than a ruling elite.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see people, -'s.