DUTEOUS, a. [from duty.] 1. Performing that which is due, or that which law, justice or propriety requires; obedient; respectful to those who have natural or legal authority to require service or duty; as a duteous child or subject.2. Obedient; obsequious; in a good or bad sense.Duteous to the vices of thy mistress.3. Enjoined by duty, or by the relation of one to another; as duteous ties. [Little used.]
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