Duteous to the vices of thy mistress.
Shak.
-- Du"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Du"te*ous*ness, n.
Du"ti*a*ble (?), a. [From Duty.] Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.]
All kinds of dutiable merchandise.
Hawthorne.
Du"tied (?), a. Subjected to a duty. Ames.
Du"ti*ful (?), a. 1. Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a dutiful subject.
2. Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection.
Syn. -- Duteous; obedient; reverent; reverential; submissive; docile; respectful; compliant.
-- Du"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Du"ti*ful*ness, n.
Du"ty (?), n.; pl. Duties (#). [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.]
When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty.
Tyndale.
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2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country.
Hallam.
3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
With records sweet of duties done.
Keble.
To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty.
Hallam.
Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them.