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   Obsequious , a. [L. obsequiosus, fr. obsequium compliance, fr. obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequy.]
   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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   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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   [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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