Definition of Otiose. Meaning of Otiose. Synonyms of Otiose

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Definition of Otiose

Otiose
Otiose O"ti*ose`, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.] Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. ``Otiose assent.' --Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and un?rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce. --Alford.

Meaning of Otiose from wikipedia

- birth to human beings as well as to most animals and plants. Now a vague, otiose, spiritual being, "the old woman" (Kadjeri) once emerged from the waters...
- alphabets. In the Anglo-Saxon ****horc it retained its shape, but became otiose as it ceased to represent any sound in an Old English. However, possibly...
- in the late 1980s, "but not before it had become absurd". She noted its "otiose" use in the paper's obituaries for Robert Mapplethorpe (died 1989) and Danny...
- potestas est) qua scit, quam ejus qua movet et agit: ut praesciat quaedam otiose, quae non praedestinet et praeordinet. One of many differing English translations...
- trace (the latter compatible with a ‘10'), and a shallow sign perhaps an otiose t. In other words, we here have a date higher than Year 20 of Piankhy [or...
- (unknown(pp 70–71)) p /p/ ᛉ ilcs (eolh?) (unknown, perhaps a derivative of elk(p 71)) x (otiose as a sound(p 41) but still used to transliterate the Latin letter 'X' into...
- otium oti- leisure negotiable, negotiate, negotiation, nonnegotiable, otiose, otiosity, renegotiate, renegotiation ovis ov- sheep ovile, ovine †ovicula ovicul-...
- Everything." Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic described Saint Jack as "otiose and odious". Filmink magazine called it "a great hangout movie. It just...
- medicamento, in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti: ut quidquid otiose, vel etiam crimnosa peccasti locutione, divina clementia miserante expurgetur:...
- he is not the creator of the sting quartet genre itself... This old and otiose myth not only misrepresents the achievements of other excellent composers...