obedible

English

Adjective

obedible (comparative more obedible, superlative most obedible)

  1. (obsolete) obedient
    • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volumes (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
      […] though spirits have nothing material in their nature, which that fire should work upon; yet by the judgment of the Almighty Arbiter of the World, justly willing their torment, they may be made most sensible of pain, and by the obedible submission of their created nature, wrought upon immediately by their appointed tortures […]
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