OPage 6
- English Word Obedience Definition The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
- English Word Obedience Definition The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
- English Word Obedience Definition A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
- English Word Obedience Definition One of the three monastic vows.
- English Word Obedience Definition A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
- English Word Obedienciary Definition One yielding obedience.
- English Word Obedient Definition Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
- English Word Obediential Definition According to the rule of obedience.
- English Word Obediently Definition In an obedient manner; with obedience.
- English Word Obeisance Definition A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.
- English Word Obeisance Definition Obedience.
- English Word Obeisancy Definition See Obeisance.
- English Word Obeisant Definition Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.
- English Word Obeli Definition of Obelus
- English Word Obelion Definition The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.
- English Word Obeliscal Definition Formed like an obelisk.
- English Word Obelisk Definition A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2.
- English Word Obelisk Definition An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
- English Word Obelisk Definition To mark or designate with an obelisk.
- English Word Obelisked Definition of Obelisk