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Obey
OBEY, v.t. [L. obedio; Gr.]
1. To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph 6.
Servants, obey in all things your masters. Col 3.
He who has learned to obey, will know how to command.
2. To submit to the government of; to be ruled by.
All Israel obeyed Song 1Chron. 29. Dan 7.
3. To submit to the direction or control of. Seamen say, the ship will not obey the helm.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Rom 6. James 3.
4. To yield to the impulse, power or operation of; as, to obey stimulus.
Relentless time, destroying power, whom stone and brass obey.
obey appears in definitions for these words:
All-obeying Better Beware Business Buxom Call Chiefly Christian Complier Conform Conformable Constitute Curfew Disobedience Disobedient Disobey Disobeyed Disobeying Doer Eschew Estrapade Faith Favorable Follow Followed Follower Following Hear Hearing Hearken Impulsive Independent Infer Infringe Inobedient Joyfully Keep Listen Meanly Mind Motion Northing Obedience Obey Obligation Observe Pious Rebellion Religion Religious Remember Rule Sacrament Serve Sin Since Sovereign Stickler Strangeness Subject To Under Unkept Unobeyed Wait Whereat Which Word
All-obeying Better Beware Business Buxom Call Chiefly Christian Complier Conform Conformable Constitute Curfew Disobedience Disobedient Disobey Disobeyed Disobeying Doer Eschew Estrapade Faith Favorable Follow Followed Follower Following Hear Hearing Hearken Impulsive Independent Infer Infringe Inobedient Joyfully Keep Listen Meanly Mind Motion Northing Obedience Obey Obligation Observe Pious Rebellion Religion Religious Remember Rule Sacrament Serve Sin Since Sovereign Stickler Strangeness Subject To Under Unkept Unobeyed Wait Whereat Which Word
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