01 a. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
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Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.[Obs.]“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.“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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Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.[R.]