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[ verb ] be obedient to

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

`` Eve was disobedient ; for she did not obey when as_yet she was a virgin .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

Not Louis_/_15 , , since even he obeys .

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

Now Eileen really would have_to settle_down to love honor and obey , and she 'd have_to quit drinking .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

Procreation , expansion , proliferation - these are the laws of living_things , with the penalty for not obeying them the ultimate in punishments : oblivion .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Youth obeyed when commanded .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 23530
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