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Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.

n number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.

vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesis…

The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

One yielding obedience. [Obs.] Foxe.

According to the rule of obedience. [R.] An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. Sir M. Hale.

In an obedient manner; with obedience.

Obedience. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To give obedience. Will he obey when one commands Tennyson.

One who yields obedience. Holland.

n; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer. Taylor.

Was or were under obligation to pay; owed. [Obs.] This due obedience which they ought to the king. Tyndale. The love and duty I long have ought you. Spelman. [He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound. Shak.

esistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. The best virtue, passive fortitude. Massinger.

Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.

Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. Rambler.

n; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof. "'T is positive 'gainst all exceptions." Shak.

tate of the mind in which all its faculties are alert, prompt, and acting harmoniously in obedience to the will, enabling one to reach, as it were spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden emergencies.

ress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.