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Webster 1828 Edition

Officiously

OFFI'CIOUSLY

, adv.

1.

Kindly; with solicitous care.

Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd.

2.

With importunate or excessive forwardness.

Flattering crowds officiously appear, to give themselves, not you, a happy year.

3.

In a busy meddling manner.