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obey |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Obey \O*bey"\, v. i. To give obedience. Will he obey when one commands? --Tennyson. Note: By some old writers obey was used as in the French idiom, with the preposition to His servants ye are to whom ye obey. --Rom. vi 16. He commanded the trumpets to sound: to which the two brave knights obeying, they performed their courses. --Sir. P. Sidney. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Obey \O*bey"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obeyed}; p. pr & vb n. {Obeying}.] [OE. obeyen, F. ob['e]ir, fr L. obedire oboedire ob (see Ob-) + audire to hear. See {Audible}, and cf {Obeisance}.] 1. To give ear to to execute the commands of to yield submission to to comply with the orders of Children, obey your parents in the Lord. --Eph. vi 1. Was she the God, that her thou didst obey? --Milton. 2. To submit to the authority of to be ruled by My will obeyed his will --Chaucer. Afric and India shall his power obey. --Dryden. 3. To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of as a ship obeys her helm. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: obey v : be obedient to [ant: {disobey}]
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