Defn: Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods. [U.S.]
All kinds of dutiable merchandise. Hawthorne.
DUTIED
Du"tied, a.
Defn: Subjected to a duty. Ames.
DUTIFUL
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.
DUTY
Du"ty, n.; pl. Duties. Etym: [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.
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.