inofficious

comparative more inofficious · superlative most inofficious

1. obsoleteIndifferent to obligation or duty.

   Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv.

   1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] [and George Eld] for Edward Blount, published 1604, →OCLC, signature B3, verso

2. obsoleteNot officious; not civil or attentive.
3. obsoletelawContrary to one's natural obligation or duty, as of a testament by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance.

   the inofficious testament

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

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   an inofficious disposition of his fortune

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