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• obedient — I adjective acquiescent, amenable, attentive, behaved, biddable, complaisant, compilable, compliant, complying, conformable, conforming, controllable, dedicated, deferential, devoted, dicto audiens, docile, ductile, duteous, dutiful, faithful,… …   Law dictionary

• obedient — obedient, docile, tractable, amenable, biddable mean submissive to the will, guidance, or control of another. Though applied chiefly to persons, they are sometimes extended to things. Obedient implies due compliance with the commands or requests… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• obedient — adjective obviously, you want an obedient dog for security work Syn: compliant, acquiescent, tractable, amenable; dutiful, good, law abiding, deferential, respectful, duteous, well trained, well disciplined, manageable, governable; docile, tame,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

• obedient — [[t]oʊbi͟ːdiənt[/t]] ADJ GRADED A person or animal who is obedient does what they are told to do. He was very respectful at home and obedient to his parents... What a sweet, obedient little girl she was in the sixth grade. Ant: disobedient… …   English dictionary

• obedient — o|be|di|ent [ ou bidiənt ] adjective * doing what a person, law, or rule says you must do: The soldiers stood at attention disciplined, and obedient. ─ opposite DISOBEDIENT your obedient servant VERY FORMAL used in the past as a way of ending a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• obedient */ — UK [əˈbiːdɪənt] / US [oʊˈbɪdɪənt] adjective doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do The children stood in a little group disciplined, and obedient. • your obedient servant Derived word: obediently adverb …   English dictionary

• obedient — [əˈbiːdiənt] adj doing what a person, law, or rule says that you must do Ant: disobedient obedience noun [U] obediently adv …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Classical Hindu law in practice — originates from community, not a state polity. In this way, particular groups of society began to gain influence in the creation and administration of law. Primary corporate groups, Kingships, and Brahmins were the factions, which conveyed Hindu… …   Wikipedia

• Civil law — Civil Civ il, a. [L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil. See {City}.] 1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. [1913 Webster] 2. Subject to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• obey — I verb abide by, accede, accept, accommodate, acquiesce, act in accordance with orders, act on, adhere to, agree, answer to, assent, attend to, attend to orders, be devoted to, be faithful to, be governed by, be guided by, be loyal to, be… …   Law dictionary

• Responsibility for the Holocaust — Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its… …   Wikipedia