† inoˈbedient, a. and n. Obs.
[a. OF. inobedient, or ad. late L. inobēdient-em (Augustine), f. in- (in-3) + obœdient-em obedient.]
A. adj. Withholding obedience; = disobedient.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 282 He bosteth and braggeth with many bolde othes, And in-obedient to ben vndernome of any lyf lyuynge. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶318 Inobedient is he that disobeyeth for despit to the comandementz of god and to hise souereyns And to his goostly fader. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxxii. (1869) 65 Wherfore it was neuere afterward rebelle ne inobedient to his comaundement. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 Diuers & sondry wilfull & inobedient subiectes of this realme. a 1631 Donne Lett. to Sir H. G. Wks. (Alford) VI. 408 Heretofore the inobedient Puritans and now the over-obedient Papists attempt you. 1805 Southey Madoc ii. vi, Irresolute They heard, and inobedient; to obey Fearing, yet fearful to remain. |
b. transf. Of a thing: = disobedient b.
| 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvi. iv. (W. de W.) 554 As longe as bras or laton is medlyd wyth the substaunce of gold, it cleueth alway vnder the hamour and is inobedyent [MSS. vnobedient] to take due shape. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xi. 26 By digesting the inobedient Chylus, which could not be tamed, in the Stomach. |
B. n. A disobedient or perverse person.
| 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. V 71 Landes gotten or to be gotten and overcome in the name of our said father upon rebelles and inobedientes to hym. |
Hence inoˈbediently adv., in a disobedient manner; disobediently.
| 1536 Lady Mary in Burnet Hist. Ref. i. iii. (1679) 206 The Kings Highness my Father, whom I have obstinately and inobediently offended. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 712/1 Hath with his eares hard dyuers persons..vnreuerently, inobediently, and not faythfully speake of the kinges maiestye. |