O"ti*ose` (?), a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
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Otiose assent."
Paley.
The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce.
Alford.
© Webster 1913.