obsequiate

From obsequi(ous) +‎ -ate.

• IPA^(key): /əbˈsiː.kwi.eɪt/

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obsequiate (third-person singular simple present obsequiates, present participle obsequiating, simple past and past participle obsequiated)

1. (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.

obsequiate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of obsequiar combined with te