Lewis Short
ob-sĕquĭum (noun N) : obsequor.
* In gen., compliance, yieldingness, complaisance, indulgence (class.; syn.: indulgentia, obsequentia): prosequium a prosequendo, obsequium ab obsequendo dicuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 226 Müll.: obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit,Ter. And. 1, 1, 41: obsequium atque patientia,Cic. Pis. 2, 5: obsequium et comitas,id. Att. 6, 6: alicui tribuere,Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 30: ventris,i. e. gluttony,Hor. S. 2, 7, 104: animo sumere,to follow the bent of one's inclinations,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 7: in obsequio uxoris,in the service of his wife,Vulg. 4 Reg. 5, 2.—Of inanim. things: flectitur obsequio curvatus ab arbore ramus,by yielding, by its pliancy,Ov. A. A. 2, 179.—In plur.: omnia ei obsequia polliceor, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11, 3.
* In partic.
* Compliance in love, yielding, consent, Petr. 113; Col. 6, 27, 10; Curt. 6, 7, 1; 10, 1, 25.
* Obedience, allegiance: in populum Romanum,Liv. 29, 15, 3: principum,i. e. towards them,Just. 3, 2, 9: ad obsequium redigere,to subjugate,Suet. Aug. 21: nulla colonia vestra erit, quae nos obsequio erga vos fideque superet,Liv. 7, 30, 19: obsequium in regem retinere,Tac. A. 6, 37 (43) fin.; 13, 3; Just. 20, 4, 9: jurare in obsequium alicujus, to swear obedience or allegiance to one, Just. 13, 2: obsequium erga aliquem exuere,to throw off,Tac. A. 3, 12.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary