Ō'ti-ōse', a.

(ō'shĭ-ōs'), a. [Lat. otiosus, from otium, ease.] Being at rest or ease; unemployed; indolent. “Otiose assent.” Paley.

The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unprofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce. Alford.