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ccordance 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).

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

Not-officiously.

Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.

Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.

One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person. And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Tim. v. 13.

Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry. [R.] "Emulatory officiousness." Bp. Hall.

the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. But, with your favor, I will treat it here. Dryden.

ung; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. Sir W. Scott.

fully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor.

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

One who, by his officious

meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.

Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.

lanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] -- To thrust one's nose into, to meddle officiously in. -- To wipe one's nose of, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]

Too busy; officious.

One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.

An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.

Overbusy; officious. [R.] Heywood.