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officiously |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf.F. officieux See {Office}.] 1. Pertaining to or being in accordance with duty. [R.] If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one --Note on Gen. xxvii. (Douay version). 2. Disposed to serve; kind obliging. [Archaic] Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious. --Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. --Burke. 3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome. You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak. Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See {Impertinent}. -- {Of*fi"cious*ly}, adv -- {Of*fi"cious*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: officiously adv : in an officious manner; "nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty"
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