Officious — Defs

01 a. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.

1.
Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.[R.]
“If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an 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.