Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OF-FI'CIOUS-LY, adv.

1. Kindly; with solicitous care. Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd. Dryden.
2. With importunate or excessive forwardness. Flattering crowds officiously appear, / To give themselves, not you, a happy year. Dryden.
3. In a busy meddling manner.