obsequiate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From obsequi(ous) + -ate.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]obsequiate (third-person singular simple present obsequiates, present participle obsequiating, simple past and past participle obsequiated)
- (transitive, literary, rare) To be obsequious to (someone).
- 1876 March 21, Maria Ferretti, “Pope of Rome”, in Washington Chronicle, volume XIII, number 272, Washington, D.C., “Personalities” section, page 7, column 1:
- 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.
- 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:
- “I am Potelin, Your Majesty’s Giwe of London, obsequiating Your Majesty:” says the bestial apostate.
- 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:
- [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.