obsecundo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ob-sĕcundo, āvi, ātum, 1,

v. n., to be compliant, show obedience; to comply with, humor, fall in with, follow implicitly, obey a pers. or thing (rare but class.; syn.: morigeror, obsequor, oboedio): obsecundare in loco, Ter. Heaut. 827; id. Ad. 994: ut ejus semper voluntatibus socii obtemperarint, hostes oboedierint, venti tempestatesque obsecundarint, * Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 48: obsecundando mollire impetum, Liv. 3, 35, 7: simul capite atque umeris sensim ad id, quo manus feratur, obsecundantibus, Quint. 11, 3, 92; M. Aur. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 35 Mai.: imperiis, Amm. 17, 10, 10.—Hence, * obsĕcundanter , adv., in compliance with, according to a thing: obsecundanter naturae vivere, Nigid. ap. Non. 147, 26 (obsequenter, Non.).

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