Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Officiate

Officiate , intransitive verb

[Late Latin officiare. See Office.]

To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public ceremony or service. — Bp. Stillingfleet

Officiate , transitive verb

To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function. [Obsolete]
Merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth. — Milton