Negotious

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Engaged in much business; busy..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Engaged in much business; busy.
2. (obsolete) Requiring meticulous attention to detail.
3. Allowing for or capable of negotiation.

Example Sentences

But if the Prince have no ayme at augmentation by new acquests and stands not so much in feare of externall enemies, as of friends at home, he then ought to let the people enjoy a negotious ease, of buildings, and playes, and such like things.

My ever most honourable good Lord, " When I first importuned your most excellent Lordship, it was in a most negotious juncture of time, your Honour jast ready to enter into your coach ; yet this hindred not, but your goodness was pleased to go up straitway, and write a letter to the Lord Bishop.

Many works (LXX.) going forward at once; a negotious man was he.

We receyved at Thetford in ye time of the Assises soe many sevrall letters, some of them from ye Lords of ye Counsell, and others from your Lord, as in ye soe negotious a time we mistooke our selves in ye directions of our answers,...

Thus would they have ruffled & rashed in their relatives, Searching night and day manipulus curatorum, With the exornatory of Curates and many inventives, As Dormi recuré and Gesta Romanorum, With the annal usage of Ceremones parati, And the negotious search of Sermones discipuli, And many mo than these besides their decrees, With constitutions and decretals, with suche suttle lyes.

Both which conditions being removed, let them not looke for any combersome, negotious and carefull matter at my hands (for I have denounced open warre unto all manner of carke and care) I am commodiously easie and ready in times of any bodies necessitie.

...for that it chiefly, and in a manner only requireth of us a rational and spiritual service, consisting in performance of substantial duties, plainly necessary or profitable; not withdrawing us from the practice of solid piety and virtue by obligations to a tedious observance of many external rites; not spending the vigour of our minds upon superficial formalities, (or negotious scrupulosities, as Tertullian termeth them,) such as serve only to amuse childish fancies, or to depress slavish spirits.

The reason why all Japanese tenancy measures were frustrated in the past was that the price of land was left negotious between landlord and tenant, and that when the former was willing to sell land the transaction was on his own terms only.

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• more negotious
• most negotious

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