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officious
(encz) | officious,vlezlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
officious
(encz) | officious,všetečný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Officious
(gcide) | Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
See Office.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
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2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
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They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
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3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
[1913 Webster] -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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officious
(wn) | officious
adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an
interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly
making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about
other people's business" [syn: interfering,
meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy,
busybodied] |
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officious
(encz) | officious,vlezlý adj: Zdeněk Brožofficious,všetečný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
officiously
(encz) | officiously,všetečně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
officiousness
(encz) | officiousness,všetečnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Inofficious
(gcide) | Inofficious \In`of*fi"cious\, a. [L. inofficiosus: cf. F.
inofficieux. See In- not, and Officious.]
1. Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.]
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Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. --B.
Jonson.
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2. Not officious; not civil or attentive. [Obs.] --Jonhson.
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3. (Law) Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to
natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made
without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child
is unjustly deprived of inheritance. "The inofficious
testament." --Blackstone. "An inofficious disposition of
his fortune." --Paley.
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Inofficiously
(gcide) | Inofficiously \In`of*fi"cious*ly\, adv.
Not officiously.
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Officiously
(gcide) | Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
See Office.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
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2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
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They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
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3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
[1913 Webster] -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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Officiousness
(gcide) | Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
See Office.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
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2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
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They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
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3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
[1913 Webster] -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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Overofficious
(gcide) | Overofficious \O"ver*of*fi"cious\, a.
Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. --Collier.
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Unofficious
(gcide) | Unofficious \Unofficious\
See officious. |
officious
(wn) | officious
adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an
interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly
making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about
other people's business" [syn: interfering,
meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy,
busybodied] |
officiously
(wn) | officiously
adv 1: in an officious manner; "nothing so fatal as to strive
too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty" |
officiousness
(wn) | officiousness
n 1: aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing
yourself or your ideas without invitation [syn:
intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness] |
INOFFICIOUS
(bouvier) | INOFFICIOUS, civil law. This word is frequently used with others; as,
inofficious testament, inofficiosum testamentum; inofficious gift, donatio
inofficiosa. An inofficious testament is one not made according to the rules
of piety; that is, one made by which the testator has unlawfully omitted or
disinherited one of his heirs. Such a disposition is void by the Roman civil
law. Dig. 5, 2, 5; see Code, 3, 29; Nov. 115; Ayl. Pand. 405; Civil Code of
Lo. art. 3522, n. 21.
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