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Example sentences for "officiating"

Lexicographically close words:
officiant; officiants; officiate; officiated; officiates; officier; officiers; officii; officiis; officina
  1. By an order in council he subsequently commanded that this paper should be read on two successive Sundays at the time of divine service by the officiating ministers of all the churches and chapels of the kingdom.

  2. The place for the altar is in the Choir, an inclosure specially set apart for the sacred ministers and the singers, who at the public functions form one officiating body.

  3. The officiating priest, too, was a Spaniard.

  4. These officiating ministers are chosen among the singers in holy orders; one a bass, another a tenor, and the third a counter-tenor.

  5. The mass begins within a white veil, which conceals the officiating priest and ministers, and the service proceeds in this manner till the words “the veil of the temple was rent in twain” are chaunted.

  6. The recurring necessity of officiating at the altar, before I could remove these inabilities, would increase them every day tenfold, and give my life a foretaste of the torturing fire to which I should be doomed by the sentence of my church.

  7. But the Duke came out to the little osteria immediately on hearing of the catastrophe; also the English clergyman officiating at the Baths came out.

  8. There was no great crowd, but a score or two of spectators, mainly belonging to the gamin category, were standing around the officiating priests and curiously looking on.

  9. He is recorded as officiating at Annapolis Royal, April, 1785, and was, therefore, the first bishop of our Church who preached in the Dominion of Canada.

  10. The officiating Thug, turning to the spectators, and holding the axe uplifted, asks, "Shall I strike?

  11. When he returned, the mass was drawing to an end, and, as soon as the rain fell less violently, the officiating priest went off under the white silk umbrella embroidered with gold.

  12. There are three missions in Batan, each settlement having its cathedral and officiating priests.

  13. At the same time that the old priest was officiating by the side of one bed, the chaplain of the ship would be attending the last moments of some other victim.

  14. Archibald Gray was the officiating minister there for about twenty years; he was succeeded by Rev.

  15. Mr. Jones was the first officiating priest.

  16. Burke had been officiating priest at St. Peter's, the old Roman Catholic church which stood on the present St. Mary's grounds at the head of Salter Street.

  17. 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.

  18. She always occupied it alone because from 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.

  19. They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them by a serge curtain nine feet in height.

  20. Priestley’s Meeting House; and after officiating in other Unitarian places of worship, retired from pulpit work altogether.

  21. They utter no responses, they declare with one voice no creed, they raise no sacred chant or song; otherwise, they stand as it were motionless and apart; everything is done for them by the officiating priest.

  22. In London, within twelve miles of the Post-office, there are some seven hundred churches and chapels connected with the Church, and about treble that number of officiating clergy.

  23. In this case the entry is “Licence with consent of Parents,” but this by no means implies that the other marriages took place without such consent; the addition of these words depended upon the habit of the officiating minister.

  24. In the second, 1808, the Bishop of Moulins is entered as the officiating priest.

  25. He was also officiating outside the prison, for in the register kept by the neighbouring priest, the Rev.

  26. The bride, accompanied by the minister officiating in the late ceremony, walked back to her lodging.

  27. Not far above was another ledge, also a cubit broad, on which the officiating priests might stand.

  28. The top step is wider than the others and forms a platform on which the officiating priest might stand; (see Fig.

  29. Dumoise went through Simla without halting, and returned to Meridki there to take over charge from the man who had been officiating for him during his tour.

  30. The officiating damsel, who had anticipated the order before it was given, set the glass of spirits before Pell, and retired.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "officiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.