OBEYED
OBEYED, participle passive Complied with; performed; as a command; yielded to.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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OBEYED, participle passive Complied with; performed; as a command; yielded to.
OBEYER, noun One who yields obedience.
OBEYING, participle present tense Complying with commands; submitting to.
OBFIRM,obferm',
OBFIRMATE, obferm'ate. verb transitive To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Not used.]
OBFUS'CATE, verb transitive [Latin ob and fusco, to obscure.] To darken; to obscure.
OBFUS'CATED, participle passive Darkened in color.
OBFUS'CATION, noun The act of darkening or rendering obscure; a clouding.Obfuscations of the cornea.
OB'IT, noun [Latin obiit, obivit; ob and eo, to go.] Properly, death; decease; hence, funeral solemnities or anniversary service for the soul of the deceased on the day of his d...
OBIT'UAL, adjective [Latin obeo, to die; obitus, death.] Pertaining to obits, or the days when funeral solemnities are celebrated; as obitual days.
OBIT'UARY, noun1. A list of the dead, or a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead.2. An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of...
OB'JECT, noun [Latin objectum, objectus. See the Verb.]1. That about which any power or faculty is employed, or something apprehended or presented to the mind by sensation or im...
OB'JECT-GLASS, noun In a telescope or microscope, the glass placed at the end of a tube next the object.OBJECT', verb transitive [Latin objicio, ob and jacio, to throw against.]...
OBJECT'ABLE, adjective That may be opposed.
OBJEC'TION, noun [Latin objectio.]1. The act of objecting.2. That which is presented in opposition; adverse reason or argument. The defendant urged several objections to the pla...
OBJEC'TIONABLE, adjective Justly liable to objections; such as may be objected against.
OBJECT'IVE, adjective1. Belonging to the object; contained in the object.Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are ce...
OBJECT'IVELY, adverb1. In the manner of an object; as a determinate idea objectively in the mind.2. In the state of an object.
OBJECT'IVENESS, noun The state of being an object.Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light?
OBJECT'OR, noun One that objects; one that offers arguments or reasons in opposition to a proposition or measure.
OBJUR'GATE, verb transitive [Latin objurgo; ob and jurgo, to chide.] To chide; to reprove. [Not used.]
OBJURGA'TION, noun [Latin objurgatio.] The act of chiding by way of censure; reproof; reprehension. [Little used.]
OBJUR'GATORY, adjective Containing censure or reproof; culpatory. [Little used.]
OBLA'DA, noun A fish of the sparus kind, variegated with longitudinal lines, and having a large black spot on each side near the tail.
OBLA'TE, adjective [Latin oblatur, offero; ob and fero, to bear.]Flattened or depressed at the poles; as an oblate spheroid, which is the figure of the earth.
OBLA'TENESS, noun The quality or state of being oblate.
OBLA'TION, noun [Latin oblatio, from offero; ob and fero, to bear or bring.]Any thing offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.Bring no more v...