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Obedience - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Obedience : (noun)
1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with
respect to another person [syn: obeisance] [ant: disobedience]
2: the trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience]
3: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children
were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law
school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: respect]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Obedience : \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
Obedient,_and_cf.{Obeisance">oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf.{Obeisance.]
1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
compliance with that which is required by authority;
subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
--Ames.
2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
dutifulness. --Shak.
3. (Eccl.)
(a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
submit to the authority of the pope.
(b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
a prior.
(c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
(d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
or congregation to a subject.
Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
Passive obedience. See under Passive.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Priory \Pri"o*ry\, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
Prior, n.]
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and
called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the
prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as
independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where
the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior
was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
Syn: See Cloister.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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