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disobey, v.|dɪsəʊˈbeɪ|
Also 4 des-, 4–6 dys-; 5 dyshobeye.
[a. F. désobéir (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = Pr. desobedir, It. disubbidire:—Romanic dis-, desobēdīre, for late L. inobēdīre, f. dis- 4 + L. obēdīre to obey.]
1. intr. To be disobedient; not to obey.
This is the original use as in Fr., but most late instances are perhaps absolute uses of the transitive sense 2.
1393Gower Conf. I. 86 Þerof woll I desobeie. 1539Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 26 Pride..makethe hym that disobeyeth to contemne to obey. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 203 Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his feältie. 1727–38Gay Fables i. xx. 24 His bosom burn'd to disobey. 1781Cowper Hope 315 If..some headstrong hardy lout Would disobey. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 424 The wish to disobey is already disobedience.
†b. Const. to, unto [= F. désobéir à or dat.].
14..Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. 88 Eyretykes that falsly dysobey To holy chyrche. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 59 She..disobeyed to God and felle in his yre. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. ii. 12 Whan Adam & eue..dysobeyed unto god. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiii. 97 Moche of his people disobeyed to serue hym. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 35 We..disobey to theyr commaundementes.
2. trans. [The object represents an earlier dative: cf. F. il me désobéit, he disobeys (to) me.] To refuse or neglect to obey (any one); to neglect wilfully, transgress, or violate, the commands or orders of (a person in authority, a law, etc.); to refuse submission to.
1393Gower Conf. I. 338 Her owne liege..That hem forsoke and disobeide. Ibid. III. 50 Ther might nothing hem disobey. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 60 He toke and ete thereof, for he wolde not disobeie her. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvi. xi, It were wel done..that ye dishobeye not the auysyon. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 20. §2 Mysgoverned persons disobeyeng your lawes. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1048 Nat be wyllyng to disobey you. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 59 Seeing no meanes of disobeying the winds, they gave their violence way. 1667Milton P.L. v. 611 Him who disobeyes Me disobeyes. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian ii, Where is the principle which shall teach you to disobey a father? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 79 The chief magistrate..will punish those who disobey God and the law.
Hence disoˈbeying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. ii. 73 Every disobeying person that payes the penalty. |