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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.