obedientadj.n.

Brit.

/ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪənt/, U.S.

/əˈbidiənt/,

/oʊˈbidiənt/

Forms:

α. Middle English–1500s obedyent, Middle English– obedient, late Middle English obediant, late Middle English obediaunt, late Middle English obediente, late Middle English obidient, late Middle English–1500s obedyente; Scottish pre-1700 obediant, pre-1700 obediente, pre-1700 obedyent, pre-1700 oboedient, pre-1700 1700s– obedient, 1800s obaidient.

β. late Middle English obediand (northern), late Middle English obeydyand (northern); Scottish pre-1700 obediand.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French obediant, obedient.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman obediant, obedient and Old French obedient (early 12th cent.) < classical Latin oboedient- , oboediēns obedient, submissive, use as adjective (also as noun (singular and plural), denoting an obedient person or group of people) of present participle of oboedire obey v. Compare Italian ubbidiente (1288; a1250 as ubidente), Spanish obediente (a1250), Portuguese obediente (13th cent.).The β. forms show northern Middle English and Older Scots alteration of the ending after -and suffix¹. Compare obeisand adj.

A. adj.

I. Of a person, attribute, etc.: demonstrating or characterized by obedience.

a. That obeys or is willing to obey; submissive to another's rule or authority; complying with or carrying out a command, request, or wish. Frequently with to.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > obedient

hearsumc900

buxomc1175

obedient?c1225

yherec1315

obeisantc1325

obeyant1417

obeishinga1425

obeyand?a1425

obeisand?c1450

morigeratea1533

morigerousc1600

parent1656

biddable1826

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 311 Twa wimmen..beon obedient to hare dame inalle þing.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 171 (MED) Holy chirche regneþ & is fre to seruen god & obedient to þe prelates.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. ii. 9 In alle thingis ȝe ben obedyent.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 73^v Seruantis, beþ obedient to Ȝoure fleischlich lordis with fere and drede & schakinge.

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 183 (MED) Breþeren, ȝif ony is not obedient to oure word, markeþ him, and comune ȝe not wiþ him.

a1425 Ordination of Nuns (Lansd.) in E. A. Kock Rule St. Benet (1902) 142 (MED) Forsake þine awne propir will & liffe vndir obedience & be obediant principally to þi priores & to þi elders in þe ordir.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 744 (MED) All þis world was not aprehensyble To dyscharge þin orygynall offence..Tyll Godys own welbelouyde son was obedient and passyble.

a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) 1944 Louyd ay God..And to hym euer obeydyand were.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms civ. [cv.] 28 They were not obedient vnto his worde.

1585 Acts III. 383/2 His obedient, lawtifull and trustie subiectis.

1610 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 119 Law byding subiectis, who..ar ansuerable and obedyent to iustice.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 158 The obedient executor of your commands.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 246 Such delight hath God in Men Obedient to his will.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. Introd. 2 To be made obedient to what they already know.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) App. 2. 178 Be to thy parents an Obedient Son Each Day let Duty constantly be Done.

1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) I. iv. 561 The armed force..is essentially obedient—it acts, but should never deliberate.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 702 They were obedient to the laws.

1916 E. H. Porter Just David iii. 34 And the boy, dazed but obedient, put up his violin, and followed the woman.

1984 D. Leavitt Family Dancing 187 All night he was the perfect son, the obedient little boy.

b. Acknowledging, or subject to, the authority or rule of another; subject. Chiefly with to. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > [adjective]

underheilda1300

underlouta1300

underling?1370

subjecta1382

obeisantc1390

obedienta1398

subditc1430

subordinatec1485

subjugal?c1500

liablec1571

subaltern1581

regardant1583

obnoxious1591

vassal1594

servient1606

subservient1638

succumbent1647

ancillary1667

secondary1667

supposite1677

discretional1776

obedientiary1794

heteronomousa1871

satellite1882

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 146^v Rauenes fiȝtiþ stronglyche..and he þat is ouercome is obedient to þe victor.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4072 (MED) Fra þat tyme..sal na man be bughsome, Ne obedient to þe kirk of Rome.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 10 Contreys þat ben obedyent to the Emperour.

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 16^v (MED) Neyþer Gaynes of garnementis, gold ne siluer..makiþ oure enemyes sugettis ne obedient vnto vs, but onliche drede of dowtynesse of dedes of armes.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 5 A sprit [read spirit] obediente to a new gouernaunce.

?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Biv^v [It] is not obedient to the chyrch of Rome.

1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 13 72 After Dalmatia one must pass through regions not obedient to Rome.

1970 MLN 85 123 Ribadenaeira laments the sorry state of affairs in Britain, one of the oldest provinces of the Christian Church..,which had been obedient to Rome for nearly a thousand years.

c. your (most) obedient servant (etc.): used as a conventional expression of courtesy and respect, esp. at the close of a letter or (formerly) in taking leave of someone; hence used generally as a way of referring to oneself. Also simply your most obedient. Now chiefly archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > conventional or deferential

your servitorc1405

beadsman1420

your servant1438

your (most) obedient servant (etc.)1543

rest1572

respects1631

1543 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 19 Vrytin..be your grace..mast obedient servitour.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxvij This subscribed by your humble and obedient sonne Frances.

1618 W. Barclay Nature & Effects Well at King-horne sig. Avij So ceasing to prosecute this warsh matter of water, I will never cease to continue Your L. most humble and obedient seruitour.

1681 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 66 I am so entirely myself as being, Sir, Your most obedient and most devoted servant, Z. Isham.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. v. 230 I shall make no Disturbance before the Ladies. I am very well satisfied. Your humble Servant, Sir; Lady Bellaston, your most obedient .

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 4 Snake. Mr. Surface, your most obedient. (Exit.) Joseph. Mr. Snake, your most obedient.

c1820 in Corr. J. Sinclair (1831) II. 400 Allow me to..subscribe myself..your obedient, humble servant, J. R. Brancaleoni.

1845 W. D. Macray Man. Brit. Historians Ded. To the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel,..this volume is..dedicated, by his obedient and obliged servant.

1885 Times 24 Nov. 10/4 You will greatly oblige, Sir, Your obedient servant.

1930 L. Hutchinson Let. 11 Jan. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 27 But I decline to accept ‘Victorian's’ dictum that I must sign myself ‘always’ (or even for a moment) ‘your obedient servant’.

1946 E. Gray Man Midwife 59 The two rooms and the closet will furnish yr. obdt. with lecture rooms and office.

1993 Spy (N.Y.) Sept. 80/3 The Un-British Crossword, which your obedient servant inaugurated in the first issue of SPY back in October 1986..is meant to be Englishly nifty, yes, but also robustly American.

†2. Of a person or group of people: yielding, compliant; consenting; open to influence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > compliant

ablec1384

obedientc1400

supplec1405

accordinga1425

plianta1425

serviablea1425

appliable1449

bowablec1449

applicant?c1500

pliablea1513

applying?1529

flexible?1531

maniablea1604

correspondenta1616

compliable1641

compliant1642

complaisant1647

flexile1651

complacential1658

complying1668

commode1674

complaisential1689

applicable1702

complacent1790

unprotesting1792

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 191 Obedient as breþeren & sustren to oþere.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2362 Allas, Iason, whi wil ȝe not appese Ȝour manly corage... And to my counseil ben obedient.

1496 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. Ciij Yf we be obedient vnto our heedys, god is obedyent vnto our prayers.

3. Of behaviour or a personal attribute: founded in or expressive of obedience.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1598) iv. 401 The Queene, to whom besides the obedient duetie they ow'de to her state, they had always caried a singular loue.

a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee2/1 Now you have moulded us..to easie and obedient waies, uncrooked.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 How goodly..were such an obedient unanimity as this.

a1680 Earl of Rochester Valentinian iii. i. 33 In all obedient haste I went to Court.

1706 C. Cibber Perolla & Izadora i. 44 I'm that wretched Maid forlorn, Whose long obedient Hate to you and yours, The forceful Virtues of Perolla have Dissolv'd.

1753 R. Glover Boadicia ii. i. 22 One gentle word bestow, And I will leave thee with obedient haste.

a1797 W. Mason Elfrida in Wks. (1811) II. 44 My honest rage O'erleaps obedient duty.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 260 He lacks the homage and obedient affection which the poorest yeoman receives from his family.

1871 H. N. Oxenham Mediæval Influences in Poems 138 To Him due honour we accord Unlimited, unquestioning, entire, The perfect service of obedient love.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xv. 181 He followed me as manageable as a little child, with an obedient air.

1951 Philos. Rev. 60 135 A moral code based on the one notion of obedient love.

1993 D. James Bay of Rainbows (BNC) i Clive Kemp was not the kind of man to inspire such respectful, obedient haste.

II. Of a thing: that exhibits a natural or involuntary obedience.

†4. Astrology. Of a sign of the zodiac, etc.: dependent, subject (to). Cf. obey v. 7. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > type of sign

obedienta1393

tortuousc1400

ruminant1633

mute1658

masculine1696

mutable1928

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1420 (MED) Botercadent..of his kinde obedient Is to Mercurie and to Venus.

a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. §28 33 These croked signes ben obedient to the signes that ben of right ascensioun.

5. Chiefly of an object, involuntary agent, part of the body, etc.: actuated by an external agency; having a tendency to act or move at the instigation of or in response to an external agent; responsive, adaptable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > actuated by something

obedienta1398

obeisanta1400

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 203^v He fyndeþ matier more able and obedient to his worchynge, þe more noble impressioun he prenteþ þer Inne.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 27^v Þis puls..comeþ..of þe naschnes of þe lime þat is obedient to þe spredinge a brood.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 26 (MED) Þis arterie is y-clepid venales, &..for as myche as he ne haþ but oon coote..he is þe more obedient to be drawe abrood þoruȝ out alle þe lungis.

c1450 (?c1400) tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium (1909) 6 (MED) To god alle þinges lyven & her creature feelen..floodes & wawis of þe see feelen him; for to þe places þat þei comen fro þei ben obedient to flowe ageyn; all wyndes & þe see feelen him, for at his wille þei ben obedient to rise & falle.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 75 (MED) Jf it is so þat an arowe is not obedient to be drawen out anoon aftir þat sche is schoten, þanne it bihoueþ þat þou lete yt resten in pees in to þe tyme þat þe fleisch be rotid.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1983 (MED) The cause of odours to know if ye delyte, Fowre thingis therto be requysite: First that subtile matere be obedient To the worching of hete.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Liij^v Other efficient causes that are obedient, are but instrumentes of dooyng, as hatchettes, hammers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 86 My wife and I..floating..obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.

1696 T. D'Urfey Don Quixote iii. v. i. 48 Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the obedient Iron——should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 27/1 The Ash is accounted very obedient in all manner of Works.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 243 My thighs, now obedient to the intimations of love and nature, gladly disclose.

1800 ‘A. Pasquin’ Legislative Biogr. 50 Attun'd by every social Love, I swept the obedient lyre.

1831 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein (rev. ed.) 10 Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 344 Soldiers live upon an element much more obedient to man.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iii. 98 In the Wheat Pit the bids, no longer obedient of restraint, began one by one to burst out, like the first isolated shots of a skirmish line.

1990 Sunday Express Mag. 11 Feb. 5/1 (advt.) Now the compact 190 can offer handling that's sharper than ever before, a nose that's more obedient, suspension that will relish the tightish left-hander you're lining up.

B. n.

A person who is obedient or subject to authority; a subordinate. Also with the and plural agreement: obedient people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > one who obeys

obedienta1500

obeyer1549

sacrifice1697

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 206 (MED) Soner Is graciously hardyn oone Prayere of the obedient, than ten thowsante of oon rebelloure othyr an evill lyuere.

?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. 385 I dyd never assent ne aggre To thynge that sholde be contraryouse unto the—I of synfull ded and thought all innocent, I subduyed to Reason as hys obedyent.

1572 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 153 With ane force of his hienes obedient subjectis, quhairthrow the obedientes micht be decernit fra the inobedientes.

1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) sig. P3 Heir ar we cumde as ȝour obedients, For to fulfill ȝour iust commandements.

1626 C. Potter tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Quarrels ii. 81 Apt to condemne and reprehend any action whatsoeuer, if it were not done with their knowledge and counsell, as also to iustifie all the actions of their Obedients.

1662 J. Ray Three Itin. ii. 159 Here [i.e. in Glasgow] are most commonly about forty students of the first year, which they call obedients.

1772–4 R. Warner Courtezans iv. iv. 64 Your orders are obey'd with expedition——To the obedient, orders are well given.

1793 H. Boyd Rivals 246 It was, by our high-fortun'd state to shew The nations round what glories crown the heads Of the obedient.

1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner I. x. 178 They did not take the usual position of father and child,——the instructor and instructed——the commander and the obedient.

1889 Dict. National Biogr. XVIII. 39/2 He constantly visited different monasteries, exhorting the obedient and punishing the negligent.

1902 J. London Law of Life in Children of Frost 41 There were plenty who were obedient, and it was only the obedience in this matter, not the obedient, which lived and lived always.

1919 R. Kipling Years Between 143 (title) The obedient.

1931 L. Binyon tr. Dante Inferno iv, in Coll. Poems II. 249 Moses, the obedient and the law-giver.

Compounds

obedient plant n. the ornamental plant Physostegia virginiana (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), whose flowers, if moved sideways, remain in their new position; cf. Physostegia n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American

innocent1600

lychnidea1733

swamp lily1737

atamasco lily1743

phlox1754

lychnis1760

painted cup1776

mountain pink1818

phacelia1818

innocence1821

Nemophila1822

clarkia1827

Physostegia1830

bitter root1838

standing cypress1841

false mermaid1845

lion's heart1845

shooting star1856

lewisia1863

satin flower1871

fame-flower1879

baby blue-eyes1887

mayflower1892

agastache1900

obedient plant1900

Pennsylvania anemone1900

rock rose1906

Virginia bluebell1934

parsley1936

poached egg flower1963

poached eggs1971

poached egg plant1977

1900 A. B. Lyons Plant Names (ed. 2) 287 P[hysostegia] virginiana... Canada and Eastern U.S. False Dragon-head. Obedient plant, Lion's-heart.

1948 F. Perry Herbaceous Border v. 103 P[hysostegia] virginiana, sometimes known as the Obedient Plant because the individual sage-like blossoms on the flower spikes may be moved from side to side and remain as placed.

1993 Horticulture Oct. 63/3 Plants that grow well alongside asters and bloom at the same time include..lilies, obedient plants, roses, sunflowers, and tick clovers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	obedient
释义	obedientadj.n. Brit. /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːdɪənt/, U.S. /əˈbidiənt/, /oʊˈbidiənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s obedyent, Middle English– obedient, late Middle English obediant, late Middle English obediaunt, late Middle English obediente, late Middle English obidient, late Middle English–1500s obedyente; Scottish pre-1700 obediant, pre-1700 obediente, pre-1700 obedyent, pre-1700 oboedient, pre-1700 1700s– obedient, 1800s obaidient. β. late Middle English obediand (northern), late Middle English obeydyand (northern); Scottish pre-1700 obediand. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French obediant, obedient. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman obediant, obedient and Old French obedient (early 12th cent.) < classical Latin oboedient- , oboediēns obedient, submissive, use as adjective (also as noun (singular and plural), denoting an obedient person or group of people) of present participle of oboedire obey v. Compare Italian ubbidiente (1288; a1250 as ubidente), Spanish obediente (a1250), Portuguese obediente (13th cent.).The β. forms show northern Middle English and Older Scots alteration of the ending after -and suffix¹. Compare obeisand adj. A. adj. I. Of a person, attribute, etc.: demonstrating or characterized by obedience. 1. a. That obeys or is willing to obey; submissive to another's rule or authority; complying with or carrying out a command, request, or wish. Frequently with to. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > obedient hearsumc900 buxomc1175 obedient?c1225 yherec1315 obeisantc1325 obeyant1417 obeishinga1425 obeyand?a1425 obeisand?c1450 morigeratea1533 morigerousc1600 parent1656 biddable1826 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 311 Twa wimmen..beon obedient to hare dame inalle þing. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 171 (MED) Holy chirche regneþ & is fre to seruen god & obedient to þe prelates. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Cor. ii. 9 In alle thingis ȝe ben obedyent. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 73^v Seruantis, beþ obedient to Ȝoure fleischlich lordis with fere and drede & schakinge. c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 183 (MED) Breþeren, ȝif ony is not obedient to oure word, markeþ him, and comune ȝe not wiþ him. a1425 Ordination of Nuns (Lansd.) in E. A. Kock Rule St. Benet (1902) 142 (MED) Forsake þine awne propir will & liffe vndir obedience & be obediant principally to þi priores & to þi elders in þe ordir. c1475 Mankind (1969) 744 (MED) All þis world was not aprehensyble To dyscharge þin orygynall offence..Tyll Godys own welbelouyde son was obedient and passyble. a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) 1944 Louyd ay God..And to hym euer obeydyand were. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms civ. [cv.] 28 They were not obedient vnto his worde. 1585 Acts III. 383/2 His obedient, lawtifull and trustie subiectis. 1610 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 119 Law byding subiectis, who..ar ansuerable and obedyent to iustice. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 158 The obedient executor of your commands. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 246 Such delight hath God in Men Obedient to his will. View more context for this quotation 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. Introd. 2 To be made obedient to what they already know. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) App. 2. 178 Be to thy parents an Obedient Son Each Day let Duty constantly be Done. 1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) I. iv. 561 The armed force..is essentially obedient—it acts, but should never deliberate. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 702 They were obedient to the laws. 1916 E. H. Porter Just David iii. 34 And the boy, dazed but obedient, put up his violin, and followed the woman. 1984 D. Leavitt Family Dancing 187 All night he was the perfect son, the obedient little boy. b. Acknowledging, or subject to, the authority or rule of another; subject. Chiefly with to. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [adjective] underheilda1300 underlouta1300 underling?1370 subjecta1382 obeisantc1390 obedienta1398 subditc1430 subordinatec1485 subjugal?c1500 liablec1571 subaltern1581 regardant1583 obnoxious1591 vassal1594 servient1606 subservient1638 succumbent1647 ancillary1667 secondary1667 supposite1677 discretional1776 obedientiary1794 heteronomousa1871 satellite1882 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 146^v Rauenes fiȝtiþ stronglyche..and he þat is ouercome is obedient to þe victor. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4072 (MED) Fra þat tyme..sal na man be bughsome, Ne obedient to þe kirk of Rome. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 10 Contreys þat ben obedyent to the Emperour. a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 16^v (MED) Neyþer Gaynes of garnementis, gold ne siluer..makiþ oure enemyes sugettis ne obedient vnto vs, but onliche drede of dowtynesse of dedes of armes. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 5 A sprit [read spirit] obediente to a new gouernaunce. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Biv^v [It] is not obedient to the chyrch of Rome. 1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 13 72 After Dalmatia one must pass through regions not obedient to Rome. 1970 MLN 85 123 Ribadenaeira laments the sorry state of affairs in Britain, one of the oldest provinces of the Christian Church..,which had been obedient to Rome for nearly a thousand years. c. your (most) obedient servant (etc.): used as a conventional expression of courtesy and respect, esp. at the close of a letter or (formerly) in taking leave of someone; hence used generally as a way of referring to oneself. Also simply your most obedient. Now chiefly archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > conventional or deferential your servitorc1405 beadsman1420 your servant1438 your (most) obedient servant (etc.)1543 rest1572 respects1631 1543 in A. I. Cameron Sc. Corr. Mary of Lorraine (1927) 19 Vrytin..be your grace..mast obedient servitour. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxvij This subscribed by your humble and obedient sonne Frances. 1618 W. Barclay Nature & Effects Well at King-horne sig. Avij So ceasing to prosecute this warsh matter of water, I will never cease to continue Your L. most humble and obedient seruitour. 1681 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 66 I am so entirely myself as being, Sir, Your most obedient and most devoted servant, Z. Isham. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. v. 230 I shall make no Disturbance before the Ladies. I am very well satisfied. Your humble Servant, Sir; Lady Bellaston, your most obedient . View more context for this quotation 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 4 Snake. Mr. Surface, your most obedient. (Exit.) Joseph. Mr. Snake, your most obedient. c1820 in Corr. J. Sinclair (1831) II. 400 Allow me to..subscribe myself..your obedient, humble servant, J. R. Brancaleoni. 1845 W. D. Macray Man. Brit. Historians Ded. To the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel,..this volume is..dedicated, by his obedient and obliged servant. 1885 Times 24 Nov. 10/4 You will greatly oblige, Sir, Your obedient servant. 1930 L. Hutchinson Let. 11 Jan. in K. Gregory First Cuckoo (1978) 27 But I decline to accept ‘Victorian's’ dictum that I must sign myself ‘always’ (or even for a moment) ‘your obedient servant’. 1946 E. Gray Man Midwife 59 The two rooms and the closet will furnish yr. obdt. with lecture rooms and office. 1993 Spy (N.Y.) Sept. 80/3 The Un-British Crossword, which your obedient servant inaugurated in the first issue of SPY back in October 1986..is meant to be Englishly nifty, yes, but also robustly American. †2. Of a person or group of people: yielding, compliant; consenting; open to influence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > compliant ablec1384 obedientc1400 supplec1405 accordinga1425 plianta1425 serviablea1425 appliable1449 bowablec1449 applicant?c1500 pliablea1513 applying?1529 flexible?1531 maniablea1604 correspondenta1616 compliable1641 compliant1642 complaisant1647 flexile1651 complacential1658 complying1668 commode1674 complaisential1689 applicable1702 complacent1790 unprotesting1792 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 191 Obedient as breþeren & sustren to oþere. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2362 Allas, Iason, whi wil ȝe not appese Ȝour manly corage... And to my counseil ben obedient. 1496 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. Ciij Yf we be obedient vnto our heedys, god is obedyent vnto our prayers. 3. Of behaviour or a personal attribute: founded in or expressive of obedience. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1598) iv. 401 The Queene, to whom besides the obedient duetie they ow'de to her state, they had always caried a singular loue. a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee2/1 Now you have moulded us..to easie and obedient waies, uncrooked. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 How goodly..were such an obedient unanimity as this. a1680 Earl of Rochester Valentinian iii. i. 33 In all obedient haste I went to Court. 1706 C. Cibber Perolla & Izadora i. 44 I'm that wretched Maid forlorn, Whose long obedient Hate to you and yours, The forceful Virtues of Perolla have Dissolv'd. 1753 R. Glover Boadicia ii. i. 22 One gentle word bestow, And I will leave thee with obedient haste. a1797 W. Mason Elfrida in Wks. (1811) II. 44 My honest rage O'erleaps obedient duty. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 260 He lacks the homage and obedient affection which the poorest yeoman receives from his family. 1871 H. N. Oxenham Mediæval Influences in Poems 138 To Him due honour we accord Unlimited, unquestioning, entire, The perfect service of obedient love. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xv. 181 He followed me as manageable as a little child, with an obedient air. 1951 Philos. Rev. 60 135 A moral code based on the one notion of obedient love. 1993 D. James Bay of Rainbows (BNC) i Clive Kemp was not the kind of man to inspire such respectful, obedient haste. II. Of a thing: that exhibits a natural or involuntary obedience. †4. Astrology. Of a sign of the zodiac, etc.: dependent, subject (to). Cf. obey v. 7. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > type of sign obedienta1393 tortuousc1400 ruminant1633 mute1658 masculine1696 mutable1928 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1420 (MED) Botercadent..of his kinde obedient Is to Mercurie and to Venus. a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe ii. §28 33 These croked signes ben obedient to the signes that ben of right ascensioun. 5. Chiefly of an object, involuntary agent, part of the body, etc.: actuated by an external agency; having a tendency to act or move at the instigation of or in response to an external agent; responsive, adaptable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > actuated by something obedienta1398 obeisanta1400 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 203^v He fyndeþ matier more able and obedient to his worchynge, þe more noble impressioun he prenteþ þer Inne. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 27^v Þis puls..comeþ..of þe naschnes of þe lime þat is obedient to þe spredinge a brood. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 26 (MED) Þis arterie is y-clepid venales, &..for as myche as he ne haþ but oon coote..he is þe more obedient to be drawe abrood þoruȝ out alle þe lungis. c1450 (?c1400) tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium (1909) 6 (MED) To god alle þinges lyven & her creature feelen..floodes & wawis of þe see feelen him; for to þe places þat þei comen fro þei ben obedient to flowe ageyn; all wyndes & þe see feelen him, for at his wille þei ben obedient to rise & falle. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 75 (MED) Jf it is so þat an arowe is not obedient to be drawen out anoon aftir þat sche is schoten, þanne it bihoueþ þat þou lete yt resten in pees in to þe tyme þat þe fleisch be rotid. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1983 (MED) The cause of odours to know if ye delyte, Fowre thingis therto be requysite: First that subtile matere be obedient To the worching of hete. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Liij^v Other efficient causes that are obedient, are but instrumentes of dooyng, as hatchettes, hammers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 86 My wife and I..floating..obedient to the streame, Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought. View more context for this quotation 1696 T. D'Urfey Don Quixote iii. v. i. 48 Pray mind me, Sir, to shew my Shape and Aire; that as the Loadstone does the obedient Iron——should draw by force to me all Hearts but yours. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 27/1 The Ash is accounted very obedient in all manner of Works. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 243 My thighs, now obedient to the intimations of love and nature, gladly disclose. 1800 ‘A. Pasquin’ Legislative Biogr. 50 Attun'd by every social Love, I swept the obedient lyre. 1831 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein (rev. ed.) 10 Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 344 Soldiers live upon an element much more obedient to man. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iii. 98 In the Wheat Pit the bids, no longer obedient of restraint, began one by one to burst out, like the first isolated shots of a skirmish line. 1990 Sunday Express Mag. 11 Feb. 5/1 (advt.) Now the compact 190 can offer handling that's sharper than ever before, a nose that's more obedient, suspension that will relish the tightish left-hander you're lining up. B. n. A person who is obedient or subject to authority; a subordinate. Also with the and plural agreement: obedient people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > one who obeys obedienta1500 obeyer1549 sacrifice1697 a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 206 (MED) Soner Is graciously hardyn oone Prayere of the obedient, than ten thowsante of oon rebelloure othyr an evill lyuere. ?a1534 H. Medwall Nature i. 385 I dyd never assent ne aggre To thynge that sholde be contraryouse unto the—I of synfull ded and thought all innocent, I subduyed to Reason as hys obedyent. 1572 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 153 With ane force of his hienes obedient subjectis, quhairthrow the obedientes micht be decernit fra the inobedientes. 1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) sig. P3 Heir ar we cumde as ȝour obedients, For to fulfill ȝour iust commandements. 1626 C. Potter tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Quarrels ii. 81 Apt to condemne and reprehend any action whatsoeuer, if it were not done with their knowledge and counsell, as also to iustifie all the actions of their Obedients. 1662 J. Ray Three Itin. ii. 159 Here [i.e. in Glasgow] are most commonly about forty students of the first year, which they call obedients. 1772–4 R. Warner Courtezans iv. iv. 64 Your orders are obey'd with expedition——To the obedient, orders are well given. 1793 H. Boyd Rivals 246 It was, by our high-fortun'd state to shew The nations round what glories crown the heads Of the obedient. 1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner I. x. 178 They did not take the usual position of father and child,——the instructor and instructed——the commander and the obedient. 1889 Dict. National Biogr. XVIII. 39/2 He constantly visited different monasteries, exhorting the obedient and punishing the negligent. 1902 J. London Law of Life in Children of Frost 41 There were plenty who were obedient, and it was only the obedience in this matter, not the obedient, which lived and lived always. 1919 R. Kipling Years Between 143 (title) The obedient. 1931 L. Binyon tr. Dante Inferno iv, in Coll. Poems II. 249 Moses, the obedient and the law-giver. Compounds obedient plant n. the ornamental plant Physostegia virginiana (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), whose flowers, if moved sideways, remain in their new position; cf. Physostegia n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > North American innocent1600 lychnidea1733 swamp lily1737 atamasco lily1743 phlox1754 lychnis1760 painted cup1776 mountain pink1818 phacelia1818 innocence1821 Nemophila1822 clarkia1827 Physostegia1830 bitter root1838 standing cypress1841 false mermaid1845 lion's heart1845 shooting star1856 lewisia1863 satin flower1871 fame-flower1879 baby blue-eyes1887 mayflower1892 agastache1900 obedient plant1900 Pennsylvania anemone1900 rock rose1906 Virginia bluebell1934 parsley1936 poached egg flower1963 poached eggs1971 poached egg plant1977 1900 A. B. Lyons Plant Names (ed. 2) 287 P[hysostegia] virginiana... Canada and Eastern U.S. False Dragon-head. Obedient plant, Lion's-heart. 1948 F. Perry Herbaceous Border v. 103 P[hysostegia] virginiana, sometimes known as the Obedient Plant because the individual sage-like blossoms on the flower spikes may be moved from side to side and remain as placed. 1993 Horticulture Oct. 63/3 Plants that grow well alongside asters and bloom at the same time include..lilies, obedient plants, roses, sunflowers, and tick clovers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?c1225
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