1. (a.) Promptly obedient, submissive; compliant; yielding to the desires of another\; devoted.

2. (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.

3. (a.) of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.

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