I.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. 4, 6, 23; id. Ad. 5, 9, 37: 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.).
ob-sĕcundo , āvi, ātum, 1,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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