Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.
Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome.
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; - said of literature.
One skilled in affairs.
A solemn public ordinance or decree.
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; - opposed to the Empiric.
Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet.
Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing.