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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
obey .
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Examples
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The oblique shadows pointed at me from the shore; gladness was the ruler of all present, and was obey'd.
Letter 35 2009
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SIR, You may very well reproach me, that you have not heard from me in so many Days, and for not having obey'd your Orders in seeking for a House: But when you know the Cause, I'm sure, you will readily forgive the Neglect.
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Behalf, Duty and Honour would command, and are such imperious Mistresses as must and ought to be obey'd.
Exilius 2008
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SIR, You may very well reproach me, that you have not heard from me in so many Days, and for not having obey'd your Orders in seeking for a House: But when you know the Cause, I'm sure, you will readily forgive the Neglect.
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Authority, Commands are ill exhibited, and worse obey'd; for such a Kind of an usurp'd Power is, as it were, a Burlesque on Justice, and a Banter on Government, which serve rather to increase than to correct Crimes; for,
Exilius 2008
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At the same time looking on one Side, she saw a handsome Seat at a very little Distance, to which she went, and obey'd the threefold Advice.
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Poultry, &c. We had another Christian Slave, who had been there some Years, and had by his just Dealings gain'd so far upon our Mistress, that she made him Ruler over the other Slaves; he govern'd and was obey'd as if he had been a circumcised Free − man or Native.
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Poultry, &c. We had another Christian Slave, who had been there some Years, and had by his just Dealings gain'd so far upon our Mistress, that she made him Ruler over the other Slaves; he govern'd and was obey'd as if he had been a circumcised Free − man or Native.
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When you command Impossibilities, said Scipio, you cannot hope to be obey'd; for you may as well command the Heavens to cease their
Exilius 2008
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The Law of Fashion or Custom, is still to be obey'd, let Reason contradict it ever so much: And those bold Adventurers are look'd upon but as a sort of _Don Quixots_; whose Zeal for any Reformation puts them upon Combating generally receiv'd Opinions, or Practices; even tho' the Honour of their Maker be concern'd therein: Or what is nearer to most their own Private and Temporal Interests.
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