- (a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
- (a.) Pertaining to or being in accordance with, duty.
- (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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