Officious /(?)/

Of·fi·cious

Officious

a.
  1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
    If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than an officious and venial one.
    — Note on Gen. xxvii. (Douay version).
  2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
    Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious.
    They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable.
  3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
    You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services.