obey
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- 9
- Words With Friends
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Definition of obey
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
“obey the rules”
“obey your boss”
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verb
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(transitive)To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
“obey the rules”
“obey your boss”
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(intransitive)To do as one is told.
“Soldiers are trained to obey.”
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(intransitive, obsolete)To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
“They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].”
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Etymology
From Middle English obeyen, from Anglo-Norman obeir, obeier et al., Old French obeir, from Latin oboediō (also obēdiō (“to listen to, harken, usually in extended sense, obey, be subject to,…
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From Middle English obeyen, from Anglo-Norman obeir, obeier et al., Old French obeir, from Latin oboediō (also obēdiō (“to listen to, harken, usually in extended sense, obey, be subject to, serve”)), from ob- (“before, near”) + audiō (“to hear”). Compare audient. In Latin, ob + audire would have been expected to become Classical Latin *obūdiō (compare in + claudō becoming inclūdō), but it has been theorized that the usual law court associations of the word for obeying encouraged a false archaism from ū to oe, to oboediō (compare Old Latin oinos → Classical Latin ūnus).
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