obsequiate
To be obsequious to (someone).
Verb
- To be obsequious to (someone).
- 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. - 1876 March 21, Maria Ferretti, “Pope of Rome”, in Washington Chronicle,...
- “I am Potelin, Your Majesty’s Giwe of London, obsequiating Your Majesty:” says the bestial apostate. - a. 1914, Frederick Rolfe, “About the Depravity of the Giwen”, in Hubert’s Arthur: Being Certain Curious Documents...
- [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...
Origin
From obsequi(ous) + -ate.