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inofficious, a.|ɪnəˈfɪʃəs|
[ad. L. inofficiōsus, f. in- (in-3) + officiōsus obliging, dutiful, officious: see -ous. Cf. F. inofficieux (1495 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
†1. Not ready to do one's duty or ‘office’; not inclined to do good offices; disobliging. Obs.
1603B. Jonson King's Entertainm. Sp. Genius, Up, thou tame River, wake..Thow drown'st thy selfe in inofficious sleep. 1651tr. Life Father Sarpi (1676) 93 There he acknowledges himself to be severe, inofficious, and hard to please. 1706Phillips, Inofficious, backward in doing one any good Office, or Turn; discourteous, disobliging.
b. Law. Not in accordance with moral duty.
1663Bullokar's Eng. Expos., Inofficious, as that Will is called by Civilians, wherein they are omitted, or but slightly provided for, that chiefly ought to be considered. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xvi. 448 Suggesting that the parent had lost the use of his reason, when he made the inofficious testament. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. (1818) I. 355 Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposition of his fortune by alleging, that ‘every man may do what he will with his own’. 1883Wharton's Law Lex., Inofficious testament, a will not in accordance with the testator's natural affection and moral duties.
2. Without office, function, or operation.
1884Ld. Selborne in Law Times Rep. L. 314/1 Any other construction..would make either the former or the latter part of the 1st sub-section inofficious and superfluous. 1885Ibid. LII. 404/1 Where the operative part and the recital are at variance, the recital must be treated as inofficious.
Hence inofficiˈosity (see above, 1 b); inoˈfficiously adv.; inoˈfficiousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Inofficiousness, Backwardness in doing any good Office. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. II. 526 On the part of parent, as well as child, inofficiosity, as the Romanists call it, is indeed always liable to have place. 1856Webster, Inofficiously, not civilly or officiously. |