My will obeyed his will.
Chaucer.
Afric and India shall his power obey.
Dryden.
3. To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys
her helm.
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.
O*bey"er (?), n. One who yields obedience. Holland.
O*bey"ing*ly, adv. Obediently; submissively.
{ Ob*firm" (?), Ob*firm"ate (?), } v. t. [L. obfirmatus, p. p. of
obfirmare to make steadfast. See Ob-, and Firm, v. t.] To make firm; to
harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.
Ob"fir*ma"tion (?), n. [LL. obfirmatio.] Hardness of heart; obduracy.
[Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Ob*fus"cate (?), a. [L. obfuscatus, p. p. of obfuscare to darken; ob
(see Ob-) + fuscare, fuscatum, to darken, from fuscus dark.]
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir.
T. Elyot.
Ob*fus"cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obfuscated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Obfuscating.] To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to
bewilder.
His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas
whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened
over with fuliginous matter.
Sterne.
Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner
females.
Sir. W. Scott.
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Ob`fus*ca"tion (?), n. [L. obfuscatio.] The act of darkening or
bewildering; the state of being darkened. "Obfuscation of the cornea."
E. Darwin.
O"bi (?), n. [Prob. of African origin.] 1. A species of sorcery,
probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West
Indies. [Written also obe and obeah.] De Quincey. B. Edwards.