a particular charge or trust, or a dignity attended with a public function. The word is primarily used in speaking of the offices of judicature and policy; as the office of a secretary of state, the office of a sheriff, of a justice of peace, &c.

Office also signifies a place or apartment appointed for officers to attend in, in order to discharge their respective duties and employments: as the secretary's office, office of ordnance, excise-office, signet office, paper-office, pipe-office, six-clerks office, &c.

in architecture, denotes all the apartments appointed for the necessary occasions of a palace or great house, as kitchens, pantries, confectionaries, &c.

in the canon-law, is used for a benefice that has no jurisdiction annexed to it.