Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-OF-FI'CIOUS
IN-OF-FI'CIAL-LYIN-OF-FI'CIOUS-LY
IN-OF-FI'CIOUS, a. [in and officious.]
- Unkind; regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty. Suggesting that the parent had lost the use of his reason, when he made the inofficious testament. Blackstone. Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposition of his fortune, by alledging that every man may do what he will with his own. Paley.
- Unfit for an office. Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.
- Not civil or attentive. B. Jonson.
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