Meaning of ex officio | Babel Free

Definitions

By virtue of the office that originated it, or of the title held.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“The President of the Republic of France is, ex officio, also prince of the dyarchy called Andorra.”

“That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.”

“In the South every negro preacher is ex officio a D.D., and is commonly addressed as Doctor. This enables white Southerners to show a decent respect for his sacred office, and yet avoid the solecism of calling him Mister.”

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