Adjective

(en adjective)

Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Down towns , passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.

official duties

Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority

an official statement or report

Approved by authority; authorized.

sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal

an official drug or preparation

Discharging an office or function.

* Sir Thomas Browne

the stomach and other parts official unto nutrition

Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.