Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To obey; yield obedience to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To obey.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To obey.

Etymologies

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Latin obtemperare, obtemperatum to obey.

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