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Canonical obedience
Canonic Ca*non"ic, Cannonical Can*non"ic*al, a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a, canon or canons. ``The oath of canonical obedience.' --Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
Disobedience
Disobedience Dis`o*be"di*ence, n. Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. --Tillotson.
Disobediency
Disobediency Dis`o*be"di*en*cy, n. Disobedience.
Disobedient
Disobedient Dis`o*be"di*ent, a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See Disobey, Obedient.] 1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. --Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. --1 Kings xiii. 26. 2. Not yielding. Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. --E. Darwin.
Disobediently
Disobediently Dis`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. In a disobedient manner.
Inobedience
Inobedience In`o*be"di*ence, n. [L. inoboedientia : cf.F. inobedience.] Disobedience. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Chaucer.
Inobedient
Inobedient In`o*be"di*ent, a. [L. inoboediens, p. pr. of inoboedire : cf.F. inobedient. See Obedient.] Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Inobediently
Inobedient In`o*be"di*ent, a. [L. inoboediens, p. pr. of inoboedire : cf.F. inobedient. See Obedient.] Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] --Chaucer. -- In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Misobedience
Misobedience Mis`o*be"di*ence, n. Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] --Milton.
Nonobedience
Nonobedience Non`o*be"di*ence, n. Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
Obedible
Obedible O*be"di*ble, a. Obedient. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
obedience
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.
Obedienciary
Obedienciary O*be`di*en"ci*a*ry, n. One yielding obedience. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Obediently
Obediently O*be"di*ent*ly, adv. In an obedient manner; with obedience.
Passive obedience
Passive Pas"sive, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See Passion.] 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. --Locke. 2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission. The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger. 3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive. 4. (Med.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then not easily acted upon by acids. Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part. Passive obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government. Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace. Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is assailed by slander. Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing; suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
Unobedience
Unobedience Un`o*be"di*ence, n. Disobedience. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
Unobedient
Unobedient Un`o*be"di*ent, a. Disobedient. [Obs.] --Milton.
Your obedient servant
Servant Serv"ant, n. [OE. servant, servaunt, F. servant, a & p. pr. of servir to serve, L. servire. See Serve, and cf. Sergeant.] 1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. ``A yearly hired servant.' --Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. --D. Webster. Note: In a legal sense, stewards, factors, bailiffs, and other agents, are servants for the time they are employed in such character, as they act in subordination to others. So any person may be legally the servant of another, in whose business, and under whose order, direction, and control, he is acting for the time being. --Chitty. 2. One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v. 15. 3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.] In my time a servant was I one. --Chaucer. Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of servitude. Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of civility often used in closing a letter. Our betters tell us they are our humble servants, but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.

Meaning of Obedi from wikipedia

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- officials, wrote to parliament to notify them that they had concerns about Obedi. There were claims that he was a senior leader of the Islamic State of Iraq...
- Headquarters Absa House, Ohio Street, Kivukoni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Key people Obedi Laiser (managing director) Sabiha Gulam (chief operating officer) Products...
- Preston Munoz TD 6 (8) Cruiserweight 200 lbs. Ioane Auvaa def. Tyrone Warren TKO 3 (4) Catchweight 137.7 lbs. Zain Adams def. Obedi Maguchi TKO 1 (4) 2:40...
- 6 Q 4 5 Terry Davies  Wales 21.8 Q 5 5 Peter Mamba  Swaziland 22.3 6 5 Obedi Mwanga  Tanzania 22.7 1 6 Don Quarrie  Jamaica 20.8 Q 2 6 Dave Dear  England...
- Danny Smith, Harry Lockhart, Walter Callander, Mike Sands  Bahamas 40.48 6 Obedi Mwanga, Norman Chihota, Claver Kamanya, Hamad Ndee  Tanzania 41.07 - Sisaye...
- Saimoni Tamani  Fiji 10.69 Q 5 5 Canagasabai Kunalan  Singapore 10.71 6 5 Obedi Mwanga  Tanzania 10.92 7 5 Vikimbi Radebe  Swaziland 11.74 1 6 Rocky Symonds...
- Wakachu Marathon — DNF Obedi Mwanga Norman Chihota Claver Kamanya Hamad Ndee 4 × 100 m relay 41.07 6 did not advance Hamad Ndee Obedi Mwanga Omari Abdallah...