verb
definition
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
definition
To do as one is told.
definition
To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
Examples of obey in a Sentence
He has raised me to obey … to be good.
Agree to obey the laws that I shall make for you.
The king had sent them there to make the people obey his unjust laws.
My rules are simple; obey me and you will be rewarded.
I am not merely civil to him but obey him like a corporal, though I am his senior.
Does it obey you?
His confessor, Yakov Ignatiev, whom he promised to obey as "an angel and apostle of God," was his chief counsellor in these days.
Still she does not obey.
In 1880 Prenk was kidnapped by the Turkish authorities and exiled to Anatolia; another member of the ruling family was appointed kaimakam, but the Mirdites refused to obey him, and their district has ever since been in a state of anarchy.
Just make sure to wear a helmet and obey bike traffic laws.
Do you promise to love, honor and obey?
I've waited a sennight without finding a way to obey.
In the case of aquatic plants with aerial flowers, the latter obey the ordinary laws of pollination.
His vamps scampered out of the command center to obey.
For this purpose he organized, outside the regular administration, a large corps of civil officials and armed retainers, whose duty it was to obey him implicitly in all things; and with this force, which rose rapidly from 1000 to 6000 men, he acted like a savage invader in a conquered country.
Against this blemishwhich is in process of gradual correction the fact has to be set that the better class of merchants, the whole of the artisans and the laboring classes in general, obey canons of probity fully on a level with the best to be found elsewhere.
Those who do not like to obey my laws can leave my country."
But Anna Mikhaylovna did not obey him.
Marius had no alternative but to obey.
Just as our knowledge never can finish its task of reducing world-experience to an intelligible system, so our will is never once able perfectly to obey the law of reason.
Obey me, and you'd leave?
Both figures froze, before Jenn scrambled to obey.
The kind of creature that could do such things to other men left her no doubt he'd do the same to her if she didn't obey.
The claim to Amphipolis was subsequently affirmed, but the Greek states declined to obey the order of Persia.
He did not succeed either in stemming the tide of expense, nor in his administration, being in no way in advance of his age, and not perceiving that decisive reform could not be achieved by a government dealing with the nation as though it were inert and passive material, made to obey and to payS Like a good Cartesian he conceived of the state as an immense machine, every portion of which should receive its impulse from outsidethat is from him, Colbert.
You must obey him, no matter how much you do not wish to.
She scampered around the bed to obey, beyond thrilled that the blood worked.
Obey the psycho demon that wants to suck my blood.
And the people too are quite mutinous--they no longer obey, even my maid has taken to being rude.
But above all Denisov must not dare to imagine that I'll obey him and that he can order me about.
I can crush you, so mind your tongue and obey or die.
The panicked animal fought him for its head instead, refusing to obey him.
It tells men to " obey reason " and crush passion, or to live " according to nature."
In April 1802 he procured the passing of a senatus consultum granting increased facilities for the return of the emigres; with few exceptions they were allowed to return, provided that it was before the 23rd of September 1802, and, after swearing to obey the new constitution, they entered into possession of their lands which had not been alienated; but barriers were raised against the recovery of their confiscated lands.
A special algebra is one which differs from ordinary algebra in the laws of equivalence which its symbols obey.
This injunction he promised to obey.
It is therefore extraordinarily difficult at present to know what happens, or rather what would happen if it were not prevented, when a country reaches " the stage of diminishing returns "; what precisely it is which comes into operation, for obviously the diminishing returns are the results, not the cause; or how commodities " obey " a law which is always " suspended."
El-lil, around whose sanctuary Nippur had grown up, was lord of the ghost-land, and his gifts to mankind were the spells and incantations which the spirits of good or evil were compelled to obey.
He did not obey, and Mariana Arista, Ampudia's successor, opened hostilities.
In 1293 Edward refused to by obey a similar summons from the king of France, and in 1294 was fighting in Gascony.
The candidate first took an " oath that he had complied with all the statutable conditions, that he would give no more than the statutable fees or entertainments to the rector himself, the doctor or his fellow-students, and that he would obey the rector."
To obey would have meant death; to refuse in his own name would have been contumacy.
Other causes of trouble probably existed, for in 1231 Henry not only refused to appear at the diet at Ravenna, but opposed the privileges granted by Frederick to the princes at Worms. In 1232, however, he submitted to his father, promising to adopt the emperor's policy and to obey his commands.
But perhaps the most conclusive proof of its brevity is that it was read publicly to the assembled people immediately before they, as well as their king, pledged themselves to obey it; and not a word is said as to the task of reading it aloud, so as to be heard by such a great multitude, being long or difficult.
A synod of Africa was formed, before which Caecilian was summoned; his consecration was declared invalid, on the ground that Felix had been a traditor; and finally, having refused to obey the summons to appear, he was excommunicated, and the lector Majorinus, a dependant of Lucilla's, consecrated in his stead.
Propensity theories obey the probability of calculus.
He did not obey the laws of I linear perspective as they are formulated in the Occident, nor did he show cast shadows, but his aerial perspective and his foreshortening left nothing to be desired.
I saw clearly that it was useless to try to teach her language or anything else until she learned to obey me.
They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves.
I know the service, and it is my habit orders strictly to obey.