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Webster 1828 Edition

, adv.

Kindly; with solicitous care.

Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd.

With importunate or excessive forwardness.

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

In a busy meddling manner.

officiously ‎(comparative more officiously, superlative most officiously)

- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
  Slipping then a pillow under me, that I might give him the fairest play, I guided officiously with my hand this furious battering ram, whose ruby head, presenting nearest the resemblance of a heart, I applied to its proper mark, which lay as finely elevated as we could wish