Category:Officious

Of*fi"cious, a. Etym: [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.