INOFFICIOUS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.] Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.

2.
a.

Not officious; not civil or attentive. [Obs.] Jonhson.

3.
a.

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.