Meaning of obsequiate | Babel Free

Definitions

To be obsequious to (someone).

literary, rare, transitive

Examples

“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.”

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

“[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.”

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