Definition of Officiously

1. Adverb. In an officious manner. "Nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty"

Partainyms: Officious

Definition of Officiously

1. Adverb. in an officious manner ¹

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Definition of Officiously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officiously

officiants
officiaries
officiary
officiate
officiated
officiates
officiating
officiation
officiations
officiator
officiators
officinal
officinals
officious
officiously (current term)
officiousness
officiousnesses
offie
offies
offing
offings
offish
offishly
offishness
offishnesses
offkey
offlead
offlet
offline

Literary usage of Officiously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"8 that applies to all, invincible ignorance excepted in a few cases. 37*8."" $ 7. If one officiously aid in executing a good writ, he is CH. ..."

2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"To meddle or interfere officiously in the affairs of others. To interpose or interfere improperly.1 For a full discussion of this subject, not only as to ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment, and the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"Liability of persons who " officiously," etc., assist officers in the execution of process.—Private persons who volunteer to assist officers of the law in ..."

4. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... it would not become me to be too officiously meddling; but his proper Way, was to apply to the General, who was now in the Province, and was the only ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... although his words might have been taken down officiously by the magistrate's clerk, and might have been afterwards verified on oath by himself when ..."

6. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... have officiously interposed to save their friend from diligence, though they have not been desired by the debtor. 35. ..."

7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... except In case of one who has officiously and as a mere volunteer paid the debt of another for which neither he nor his property was answerable, ..."

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