
Noah Webster
Officious
OFFI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin officiosus.]
1. Kind; obliging; doing kind offices.
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries officious
2. Excessively forward in kindness; importunately interposing services.
You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.
3. Busy; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern.