obeying a rule or law, or doing what someone asks of you You might be interested in the historical significance of this term. Search the Encyclopedia of Law Obey in Historical Law. Formally agree to obey a rule, law, or decision of an authority figure She repeatedly agreed that «no one is above the law,» but she warned that the Supreme Court had no real way to ensure that people, including the president, obeyed her orders. Those who defend justice should first obey the rule of law themselves. When he was only three years old, the giant creature obeyed him and allowed him to go wherever he wanted. Accept and follow something like a rule or agreement The sepoys refused to obey, and the Sowars, drawing their pistols, shot six British officers or seriously wounded them. They provide continuous information so that the population can get real-time updates and then believe in the government and strictly follow all its guidelines. Obedience and reason mean doing what a person says. Obedience is used when someone quickly yields to someone else`s authority or follows a rule or law. Obey your parents. Follow all traffic rules. Spirit is used as obedience, especially when talking to children, but this often means paying attention to someone else`s wishes or orders. Remember what I said about talking.
He had great pity for the Temecula people, the sheriff did; But he had to obey the law itself. Search the Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary for acronyms and/or abbreviations containing Obey. He understood and obeyed; But her eyes followed her wistfully until she disappeared from sight. The strong force acting between quarks obeys very complicated rules – so complicated that the only way to calculate their effects is usually to use approximations and supercomputers. If he obeys and feels comfortable, chances are your puppy will survive the day without you. American obeying someone, especially an English version of a parent`s or teacher`s thesaurus, to obey a law or rule or accept a person`s authority «The Supreme Court cannot control what the president obeys,» she said bluntly. This argument is crucial to a broader argument: Are we following the rules that have been established to restrict government or not? At Flagstaff Tower, the 74th and rest of the 38th suddenly told their officers that they would no longer obey them. I continue to live here, work here, pay taxes and obey the law. THE SHAME OF HONOR KILLINGS Imagine a young woman killed by her own relatives because she does not obey. No soldier is obliged to obey a law that contradicts God`s law. I recently published a lengthy article on a variety of topics from Joseph Raz`s The Morality of Freedom.2 The article was part of a symposium on Raz`s work in the Southern California Law Review.
Raz responded to the articles of this symposium, including mine. From a point of view that covers the full range of views on political philosophy, Raz` and mine are very similar. Nevertheless, we find many things on which we disagree, which none of us would regard solely as matters of detail. For the most part, we at least share a common understanding of our differences. But there are a number of issues on which we disagree and on which we do not even seem to lack a common understanding of disagreement. It is a question of how authoritarian policies act as reasons for action, and whether we can be said to «obey» them when we follow authority correctly. Do exactly what someone tells you to do in a way that makes you seem weak, do something informally, often dishonestly, that someone wants you to do what someone asks of you, especially by providing them with information to do what seems easiest in a particular situation. Note: The -oe- in oboedä«re is peculiar in that it does not correspond to the expected result of -au- in a non-initial syllable (the regular result is -Å«-) and because -oe- is not uncommon at the outset anyway. Various attempts have been made to explain the irregularity. Following earlier propositions, Michiel de Vaan suggests the pre-Latin *Ób-awizdijÅ > *obowizdijÅ > *oboizdijÅ (rounded from a before w, which is then lost, before the weakening of a to you) > oboediÅ (where z blocks monophthongization from -oi- to -Å«- before succumbing to cluster reduction) (see Etymological dictionary of Latin and other Italic languages, Brill, 2008).
As an alternative to hypotheses of questionable phonetic changes, it has also been suggested that this is a basis other than audÄre (Michael Weiss suggests *ob-bhoiì ̄diÅ, from a nominal derivation of the basis of fÄ»dere «trust» [see faith entry 1]; cf. Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin (Ann Arbor, 2009), p. 120). accept the authority or status of someone or something. Used to say that you will do what is expected of you, not ask why. Reasons, Authority and Meaning of «Obey»: Other Thoughts on Raz and Obedience to the Informal Law, immediately do what someone tells you even if you don`t want to do it in order to behave in an expected way about something Search or search for Obey in the American Encyclopedia of Law, the European Encyclopaedia of Law, the Encyclopaedia of Law of the United Kingdom or the Encyclopaedia of Latin American and Spanish Law. Middle English obeian, borrowed from the Anglo-French obeir, goes back to the Latin oboedÄ«re, from ob- «to, in the sense of» + -oedÄ«re, probably unstressed form (with -oe- origin uncertain) of audÄre «hear» â more in ob-, audible input 1 follow an agreement or a rule by doing what one must do or what one has said, That one would do.