obsequiate

present singular third person obsequiates · participle present obsequiating · participle past obsequiated · past obsequiated

1. literaryraretransitiveTo be obsequious to (someone).

   “I am Potelin, Your Majesty’s Giwe of London, obsequiating Your Majesty:” says the bestial apostate.

   a. 1914, Frederick Rolfe, “About the Depravity of the Giwen”, in Hubert’s Arthur: Being Certain Curious Documents Found among the Literary Remains of Mr. N. C., Here Produced […], London; […]: Cassell and Company, Ltd., →OCLC, 3rd tome (Charity), book XX (The Gallimaufry of the Giwen), page 398

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   Pope of Rome, being in an awful jolly humor, got off a joke. Some fine ladies went to obsequiate him, and carried a little girl along with them.

   1876 March 21, Maria Ferretti, “Pope of Rome”, in Washington Chronicle, volume XIII, number 272, Washington, D.C., “Personalities” section, page 7, column 1

   [I]n the theatrical function to which he had given his presence, I had merited in an imposing manner the homage which the respectable obsequiated me, and for this he most charmingly regaled me with an imposing coloured gum.

   1954 August 18, Robert Graves, “Thy Servant and God’s”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CCXXVII, number 5944, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 233, column 1