overcuriously
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overcuriously (comparative more overcuriously, superlative most overcuriously)
- With too much curiosity; in an overcurious manner.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, 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.