inofficiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

inofficious (comparative more inofficious, superlative most inofficious)

1. (obsolete) Indifferent to obligation or duty.
   • 1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Part of the Kings Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation [The Coronation Triumph]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, page 850:

     Vp thou tame River, wake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drownſ't thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggish waters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flow.

2. (obsolete) Not officious; not civil or attentive.
3. (obsolete, law) Contrary to one's natural obligation or duty, as of a testament by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance.
   • 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     the inofficious testament

   • 1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

     an inofficious disposition of his fortune