Overcuriously

//əʊvəˈkjʊəɹɪəsli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    With too much curiosity; in an overcurious manner.

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From overcurious + -ly.

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