O‐bey″, v. i. To give obedience.
Will he obey when one commands? Tennyson.
☞ By some old writers obey was used, as in the French idiom, with the preposition to.
His servants ye are, to whom ye obey. Rom. vi. 16.
He commanded the trumpets to sound: to which the two brave knights obeying, they performed their courses. Sir. P. Sidney.