officiate
verb (used without object)
to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
were officiating
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past progressiveof officiate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The ICC also announced equal pay for female match officials regardless of whether they were officiating men’s or women’s games.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Both were officiating colleagues and friends to Deschaine.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2016
In event after event, there were officiating blunders that demonstrated incompetence, and sometimes outright bias.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the older ones had been educated as priests, and were officiating in their calling, when the Revolution broke in upon them, trampling alike on sacred shrine and holy vestment.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
A swarm of acolytes, zacori and neocori, were officiating on ascending stairs, in worship before close-drawn hyacinth curtains.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
