Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OF-FI'CIOUS, a. [L. officiosus.]

1. Kind; obliging; doing kind offices. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries / Officious. Milton.
2. Excessively forward in kindness; importunately interposing services. You are too officious / In her behalf that scorns your services. Shak.
3. Busy; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern.