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Webster 1913 Edition


Otiose

O′ti-oseˊ

,
Adj.
[L.
otiosus
, fr.
otium
ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
“Otiose assent.”
Paley.
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that
otiose
and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce.
Alford.