If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than as officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your
services. --Shak.
Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See {Impertinent}. --
{Of*fi"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Of*fi"cious*ness}, n.