office

(religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

(Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

(Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.

Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.

(Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.

A ceremonial duty or service
A daily service without the eucharist.

In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.

His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office.

1674, Richard Strange, The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, page 287:

(Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.

(Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.

Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.

The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]

1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Iohn 12, marginalia, page 254:

To show their loue in this last office done
To a dead friend.

1618, S. Rowlands, Sacred Memorie, section 37:

I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 318:

A ceremonial duty or service
Last rites.

The office, or Introite, (as they call it).

1549, “Svpper of the Lorde”, in The Book of Common Prayer, page 121:

(Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.

Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.

Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Cronicles xxix, folio xc, verso, column 2:

A ceremonial duty or service, particularly

When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.

Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.

[…]in as moche as I am the apoſtle off the gentyls I will magnify myn office[…]

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Romans xj:[13], folio ccxj, verso:

I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

1787, United States Constitution, Article II, §1

She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.

Fla.[…]Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out[…]

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 82, column 2:

The Tories had been in office ten years.

1923, Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot, act III, scene xv, line 227:

Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.

Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place,
And you shall well be spar'd.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 749:

The Sun was ſunk, and after him the Starr / Of Heſperus, whoſe Office is to bring / Twilight upon the Earth[…]

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

The Antients would certainly have invoked the Goddeſs Flora for this Purpoſe, and it would have been no Difficulty for their Prieſts or Politicians to have perſuaded the People of the real Preſence of the Deity, though a plain Mortal had perſonated her, and performed her Office.

1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing five Pages of Paper”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 6:

A woman[…]might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 87:

[…]there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend, the certain evils of such a choice.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 145:

A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.

In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.

1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,[…]and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 76:

These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast.

1971, John Needham, chapter III, in Science and Civilisation in China, page 590:

The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.

1988, P. Fussell, Thank God for Atom Bomb, page 134:

(archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.

...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.

Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office
Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs,
Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces...

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 1089:

One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.

1749, Henry Fielding, “Which concludes the first Book, with an Instance of Ingratitude, which we hope will appear unnatural”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 75:

I[…]am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 263:

And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit of meekness.

1830, Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants, 25:5:

[…]he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 359:

(now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.

Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.

1803, Sporting Magazine, number 21, page 327:

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/landofmist0000doyl/page/" […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"/mode/1up page " […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"]:

(figuratively, slang) Inside information.

The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Pall Mall Gazette”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 347:

A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:

A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.

A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work

A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.

There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.

1819 September 22, John Keats, letter to Reynolds

A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.

A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.

This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.

1975, M. Duke, chapter VIII, in Death of Holy Murderer, page 108:

(chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.

The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.

Now it came to paſſe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 24:11, column 1:

Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor.

1885, The Law Times Reports, number 53, page 459:

We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 15:

An English lawyer, whether barrister or solicitor, never has an office, but always chambers.

[1945, H. L. Mencken, The American Language, supplement 1, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 503:

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, number 408:

A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly

The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.

(figuratively) The staff of such places.

The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

(figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

(UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.

The administrative departments housed in such places

A ministry or other department of government.

A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.

1642, J. Howell, chapter X, in Forraine Travell, page 131:

They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office.

(Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.

Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.

Holy Office

the court of final appeal in cases of heresy

He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.

But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities.

1647, W. Bridge, Saints Hiding-place, page 17:

Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office?

1732, Benjamin Franklin, Proposals & Queries to be Asked the Junto:

[…]there are advertising offices, and[…]by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 324:

[…]a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon[…]had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:

A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.

A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.

He's from our public relations office.

The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly

As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.

1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283

... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...

A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.

1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter III, in A Study in Scarlet:

Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.

1957, Emyr Estyn Evans, chapter VIII, in Irish Folk Ways, page 112:

The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it.

1957, John Braine, chapter I, in Room at Top, page 13:

Aft of the lobby... is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.

1980, William Golding, chapter I, in Rites of Passage, page 6:

(now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.

If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.

1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume III, page 259:

If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.

1977, John McDonald Burke, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, volume I, page 280:

inquest of office
inquest of office#English

(UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:

All hunt in James Whitendales office.

1617, Nicholas Assheton, Journal, page 60:

(obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.

A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.

His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.

1699, A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew:

(figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.

1917, Alan Bott, An Airman's Outings, page 161:

In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’

(UK military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.

A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.

(computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

[…]For who would beare...
The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay,
The insolence of office...
When he himselfe might his quietas make...
With a bare bodkin?

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Ped. Now Mr. Office:
What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness
And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me
The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now,
That you observe these Vigils?

(Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A Very Woman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:

(obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.

An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.

Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart
Intirely honour[…]

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature.

1613, Samuel Purchas, Purchas, His Pilgrimage, page 623:

I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.

The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs / Of office, or the House of Office[…]

1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, stanza XL, page 123:

(obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.

A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.

[…]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Kynges [1 Kings] x:[4–5], folio lviij, recto, column 2:

At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) / All Offices of ours are out of Door[…]

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 41:

(obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

Tok Pisin: opis

→ Belarusian: о́фіс (ófis)

→ Bulgarian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Cebuano: opis

→ Chichewa: ofesi

→ Central Dusun: upis

→ Iban: opis

→ Japanese: オフィス

→ Marshallese: wōpij

→ Malay: opis

→ Russian: о́фис (ófis)

→ Scottish Gaelic: oifis

→ Swahili: afisi

→ Tausug: upis

→ Ukrainian: о́фіс (ófis)

zyrë

room(s) or building used for non-manual work

Microsoft Office
office (disambiguation)

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

der

personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites

Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”)


office

Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA?

1966, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8, page 451:

Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building.

1976, General Technical Report RM., page 128:

"I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.

1988 December 2, Grant Pick, “He Survived Operation Greylord”, in Chicago Reader:

en-verb

office (third-person singular simple present offices, present participle officing, simple past and past participle officed)

offices (present singular third-person)
officing (participle present)
officed (participle past)
officed (past)


office

religious service, notably liturgical office

Il avait trouvé dans l’office un saucisson, des boîtes de sardines, du fromage de Hollande.

place where a household's table (food and drink)-related services are conducted, especially by domestic staff


office

second-person singular present active imperative of officiō


office

The state of being employed or having a work or job; employment:

Ecclesiastical or religious work; a church career.

(rare) Unskilled work; any work that is unimportant or base.

A position of responsibility or control; a crucial occupation:

A clerical or church post or position; a religious office.

c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 223 ff.
He cam to court and was in guod offiz
With þe erchebischop of Kaunterburi.

A governmental or administrative position or post; a political office.

The situation, status, or rank one has in the wider world or within society.

c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 244 ff.
Þis holi Man was i-torned...
To a gret office of þe world.

Sche say me... withouten office of tunge and al dowmb.

c. 1380, Boethius, translated by Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece:

As it is in Phisique write
Of livere, of lunge, of galle, of splen,

c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book VII, ll. 467 ff.

Entendeth to don him service.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Thei alle unto the herte ben Servantz, and ech in his office

Membres of generacioun... maked been for bothe;
That is to seye, for office and for ese

c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in Tales of Caunterbury, ll. 127 ff.

A task, chore or assignment, especially one which is important or required; an obligation:

The role, purpose, or intended use or utility of something (especially a bodily part).

Þe mouþ heþ tuo offices, huer-of þe on belongeþ to þe zuelȝ...
Þe oþer zuo is in speche.

A task or function that one organ does to assist another or the body as a whole.

Þe holy bischop...
For him dede þe office;
In erþe he was sikerliche

A religious ceremony or ritual; a task performed for religious reasons.

He song þulke masse ilome, for al-so heo bi-ginnez

Þe furste offiz is propre inov to þe stat þat he was Inne.

(Christianity) The beginning or the initial portion of the Eucharist.

A core human faculty (e.g. movement, talking, literacy)

Þe porter of þe abbay... dede his ofice in þe clos.

a. 1422, petition, P.R.O. 117, 5842

... Abbeyes, Priories, hospitals, chaunteries and chappels, chaces, parkes, offices, milnes, weres...

A part, faculty, or division of a larger body:

A part of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage.

A part or subdivision of an estate devoted to a specified function.

1435, petition, P.R.O. 130, 6460A

John Duc of Bedford... Admirall of England in the office of þe admiralte in the Countees of Kent, Sussex...

A part, faculty, or division of a larger body:

(rare) A part or subdivision of a government devoted to a specified function.

1432, petition, P.R.O. 26, 1259

Of the whiche Maner the seyd Oratrice... be an Offyce was put out.

An inquest undertaken to investigate the possession of land or property.

The intended or ideal working or operation of something.

He pleide so sweetly þat... alle þe helly offices lefte there besinesses.

c. 1440, Christine de Pisan, translated by Stephen Scrope, The Epistle of Othea, page 85:

An officeholder invested with powers and authority.

...I wol han .xij. pens, though that she be wood,
Or I wol sompne hir vn to our office...

c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in Tales of Caunterbury:

Offyce, or place of offyce, officina.

(rare) A building or structure used for business purposes; an office.

While Beues was in þat office,
Þe kinges sone...

c. 1300, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ll. 3555 ff.

(rare) The process or undertaking of a task or assignment.

(rare) The activities typical of and concomitant to one's place in society.

foꝛ þe mynyſterie of þis office. not oneli filliþ þoo þingis þat failen to hooli men .· but alſo multeplieþ many þankyngis to god

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·ii· 9:12, page 70v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

As the administering of this favour doesn't just supply the things that holy men are lacking, but also overflows in many thanks to God.

(rare) A favour; a beneficial deed or act.

offices (plural)
offiz (alternative)
offis (alternative)
offyce (alternative)
ofys (alternative)
offise (alternative)
ofice (alternative)
offece (alternative)
offys (alternative)

English: office

Scots: office, offish

From Old French office, from Latin officium, contracted form of opificium.


office

L'Office du Jèrriais

2010, Mêfie-té des Monstres: Tchiques légendes dé Jèrri, Jersey: Le Don Balleine, L'Office du Jèrriais, →ISBN:


office

fro-noun

office oblique singular, m (oblique plural offices, nominative singular offices, nominative plural office)

office oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
offices (oblique plural)
offices (nominative singular)
office (nominative plural)

French: office