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a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1991 (MED) Thikke maters obediens hath none To þe worching of hete.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 2942 The elementis of our stone... Haue most obedience to constellacion.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 120 Drunkards, Lyars and Adulterers by an enforst obedience of planitary influence, and all that wee are euill in, by a diuine thrusting on.

1671 L. Addison W. Barbary 102 They remove from one place to another, in obedience to their fickle Humors and cogent Necessities.

1682 in Dict. National Biogr. (1895) at Park, James, (title) A general epistle to friends everywhere, written in obedience to the requirings of the spirit of life.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 250 What was all this, to a Man..that was rich enough, and came abroad, more in Obedience to a restless Desire of seeing the World, than a covetuous Desire of getting in it.

1759 S. Johnson Rasselas I. xxii. 144 The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is..infused at our nativity.

1799 C. B. Brown Edgar Huntly I. ix. 212 He acted in obedience to an impulse which he could not controul, nor resist.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 16 When the latter acts, it does so in obedience to current pulsations.

1919 E. Shackleton South i. 11 In obedience to renewed pressure this young ice ‘rafts’, so forming double thicknesses of a toffee-like consistency.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xv. 397 In obedience to a constitutional prompting the snail creeps into shelter under moss and withered leaves.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ii. xiv. 71 Old people..sat on old porches and shook the evening paper into obedience.