Definition of "inofficious"

inofficious

adjective
comparative more inofficious, superlative most inofficious
1. (obsolete) Indifferent to obligation or duty.
  Quotations
  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.
  1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar; published 1604), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Part of the Kings Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation [The Coronation Triumph]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, page 850
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.
  Quotations
  the inofficious testament
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
  an inofficious disposition of his fortune
  1785, William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy