negotious
Engaged in much business; busy.
obsolete
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.
Requiring meticulous attention to detail.
obsolete
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 these besides their decrees, With constitutions and decretals, with suche suttle lyes.
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.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin negotiosus. See also negotiate and -ious.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry negotious (CC BY-SA 4.0).