negotious

Adjective

negotious (comparative more negotious, superlative most negotious)

1. (obsolete) Engaged in much business; busy.
   • 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.1642, R. Baker, transl., Discourses upon Cornelius Tacitus
   • 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.1812, John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, page 696
2. (obsolete) Requiring meticulous attention to detail.
   • 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...1959, A. G. Dickens, Lollards & Protestants in the Diocese of York, 1509-58, →ISBN, page 123
   • 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, Essayes - Volumes 5-6, page 68
3. Allowing for or capable of negotiation.
   • 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.1951, Conference on World Land Tenure Problems at the University of Wisconsin, October 8 to November 20, 1951: Workshop reports
   • We would also urge clarification from the Legislature as to the extent that the Winton Act establishes a negotious process, specifically that it does not require binding bilateral, time-certain contracts from the school board as evidence of good faith in the meeting and conferring process.1969, California Legislature Assembly Education Committee, Subcommittee on Educational Environment, Elementary & secondary faculty relations, page 241