\Ob*se"qui*ous\, a. [L. obsequiosus, fr. obsequium
compliance, fr. obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obs['e]quieux,
See {Obsequent}, and cf. {Obsequy}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. [See {Obsequy}.] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
   [R.] ``To do obsequious sorrow.'' --Shak.
Syn: Compliant; obedient; servile. See {Yielding}.