Defn: 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.
OBEYER
O*bey"er, n.
Defn: One who yields obedience. Holland.
OBEYINGLY
O*bey"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: Obediently; submissively.
OBFIRM; OBFIRMATE Ob*firm", Ob*firm"ate, v. t. Etym: [L. obfirmatus, p.p. of obfirmare to make steadfast. See Ob-, and Firm, v. t.]
Defn: To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Sheldon.
OBFIRMATION
Ob"fir*ma"tion, n. Etym: [LL. obfirmatio.]
Defn: Hardness of heart; obduracy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.