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virka (label) A ceremonial duty or religious service|service, particularly:
1535, w:Bible Bible (w:Coverdale Bible|Coverdale Bible), w:First Book of Chronicles|1 Chron., 29:

gold Golde (gave gaue he him)... for all manner maner of vessels of every euery office offyce.

He song þulke masse ilome, for also al-so heo bi-ginnezthe Þe first furste office offiz is proper propre enough inov to the þe state stat that þat he was in Inne.

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

the Þe holy bishop bischop...For him did dede the þe office;In earth erþe he was sikerlichelaid Layd swiþe nobeliche.

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 holy H. Sacrifice of mass Masse, his canonical hours|Canonicall Houres or divine diuine office Office.

The devout deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies.

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

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

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

this Þis holy holi man Man was i-torned...To a great gret office of the þe world.

...in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify magnifie my mine office...

I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the office 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."

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

He came cam to court and was in good guod office offizWith the þe archbishop erchebischop of Canterbury Kaunterburi.

Flavius Fla.... Well, would I wereGently put out of office Office, before I were forced|forc'd out...

The Tories had been in office ten years.

He played pleide so sweetly that þat... alle the þe helly offices lefte their there businesses besinesses.

...For who would beare...The pangs of despised|despiz'd love loue, the law lawe's|s delay,The insolence of office...When he himselfe might his quietas make...With a bare bodkin?

Pedro Ped. Now Mr. office Office:What is the Reason that your vigilant GreatnessAnd your Wife's wonderful wiseness have locked|lock'd up from meThe way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now,That you observe these Vigils?

the Þe porter of the þe abbey abbay... did dede his office ofice in the þe closet clos.

Angelo Ang.... do Doe you your office, or give up|giue vp your Place,And you shall well be spared|spar'd.

The sun was sunk, and after him the starHesperus, whose office is to bringTwilight upon the earth...

The ancients 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.

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

(..)there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.

While Bevis Beues was in that þat office,the Þe king's|es sone...A ȝede to Bevis Beues stable.

when Whan the queen Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wisdom wyszdome of Solomon Salomon... & the office offyces of his ministers, and their garmentes... she wondered wondred exceedingly exceadingly.

At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor)All office Offices of ours are out of Door.

the Þe mouth mouþ has heþ two tuo offices, hereof huer-of the þe one on belongs belongeþ to the þe swallow zuelȝ...the Þe other oþer so zuo is in speech speche.

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

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.

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

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.

she Sche say me... withouten office of tongue tunge and all al dumb dowmb.

As it is in physic Phisique written writeOf livere, of lunge, of galle, of spleen splen,they Thei alle unto the heart herte being ben servants Servantz, and each ech in his officeintends Entendeth to don him service.

members Membres of generation generacioun... maked been for bothe;That is to say seye, for office and for ease eseOf engendrure.

Cassio.... Whom I, with all the office Office of my heartentirely Intirely honour...

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

I never, since I left England, till now, have regaled|regal'd Myself with a good house of office|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 springsOf office, or the house of office|House of Office.

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

The ministry mynisterie of this office... abounds aboundith by manye in doing doynge of thankingis to the Lord.

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

Bussy Bush. Thither will I with you, for little officeWill the hatefull commons perform perfourme for us vs,Except like curs to teare us vs all to pieces...

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.

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

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

He got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.

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

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

...I would wol han twelve .xij. pence pens, though that she be wood,Or I would wol summon sompne her hir unto vn to our office...

office Offyce, or place of office offyce, (l).

Now it came to passe that at what time the chest was brought unto vnto the king's|s office, by the hand of the Levites Leuites...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hes from our public relations office.''

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

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

A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the office Office, whether he be, (l) de la (l) de los (l), that is cleare of the blood bloud of the Moores or no.

They abjure abiured their Heresy publically bublikly sic before the Commissary of the holy office.

He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.

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

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

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

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 Office.

... abbeys Abbeyes, Priories, hospitals, chantries chaunteries and chapels chappels, chaces, parks parkes, offices, mills milnes, weres...

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

... proposals for erecting 500 public Publick office of ease|Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...

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

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

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

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

Of the whiche manner Maner the said seyd Oratrice... by be an office Offyce was put out.

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

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

All hunt in James Whitendales office.

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

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

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.’

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

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.