overcuriously
English
Etymology
From over- + curiously.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈkjʊəɹɪəsli/
Adverb
overcuriously (comparative more overcuriously, superlative most overcuriously)
- With too much curiosity; in an overcurious manner.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
- And Plato deemes it to be a vice of impiety, over-curiously to enquire after God, after the world, and after the first causes of things.
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