OBSE'QUIOUSLY, adverb
1. With ready obedience; with prompt compliance.
They rise and with respectful awe, at the word given, obsequiously withdraw.
2. With reverence for the dead. [Not used.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.