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obsequiates

obsequiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obsequiate.

Meaning of obsequiate

Verb

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

  1. (literary, rare, transitive) 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, volume XIII, number 272, Washington, D.C., “Personalities” section, page 7, column 1

Questions about obsequiates

What is obsequiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Obsequiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obsequiate.

Words near obsequiates in the dictionary

  1. obsequent
  2. obsequents
  3. obsequial
  4. obsequiate
  5. obsequiated
  6. obsequiates
  7. obsequiating
  8. obsequie
  9. obsequience
  10. obsequiences
  11. obsequies

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