Dū'te-ous, a.

a. [From duty]. 1. Performing that which is due, or that which law, justice, or propriety requires; respectful to those who have natural or legal authority to require service or duty. Behold the duteous son, the sire decayed, ... forced from their homes. Goldsmith. 2. Subservient; obsequious. Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. Shak.