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red by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames.

n of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer.

Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif.

to be real or true; to prove. [Obs.] Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton.

piation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought…

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

lic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

le blasphemy. Sir T. More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.

ring it to pass." Ps. xxxvii. 5. -- To bring under, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience. -- To bring up. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.

ar canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

g to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical se…

To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. Thomson.

ace, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

r that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.