OBSEQUIOUS
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Ob*se"qui*ous (?), a. [L. obsequiosus, fr. obsequium compliance, fr. obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequy.] 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. [Obs.]
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His servants weeping,
Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
Addison.
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2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
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There lies ever in “obsequious” at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another.
Trench.
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3. [See Obsequy.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [R.] “To do obsequious sorrow.” Shak.
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Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding.
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