| slovo | definícia |  
obed (msas) | obed
  - lunch, noon, luncheon, midday meal |  
obed (msasasci) | obed
  - lunch, noon, luncheon, midday meal |  
  | | podobné slovo | definícia |  
disobedient (mass) | disobedient
  - neposlušný |  
obedient (mass) | obedient
  - poslušný |  
naobedovať sa (msas) | naobedovať sa
  - lunch |  
obedovať (msas) | obedovať
  - lunch |  
poobedovať (msas) | poobedovať
  - lunch |  
pre obedom (msas) | pre obedom
  - am |  
pred obedom (msas) | pred obedom
  - a.m. |  
naobedovat sa (msasasci) | naobedovat sa
  - lunch |  
obedovat (msasasci) | obedovat
  - lunch |  
poobedovat (msasasci) | poobedovat
  - lunch |  
pre obedom (msasasci) | pre obedom
  - am |  
pred obedom (msasasci) | pred obedom
  - a.m. |  
bilobed (encz) | bilobed,dvoulaločný	adj:		Zdeněk Brož |  
civil disobedience (encz) | civil disobedience,občanská neposlušnost			 |  
disobedience (encz) | disobedience,neposlušnost	n:		Zdeněk Brož |  
disobedient (encz) | disobedient,neposlušný	adj:		Zdeněk Brož |  
disobediently (encz) | disobediently,			 |  
enrobed (encz) | enrobed,			 |  
lobed (encz) | lobed,lalokovitý	adj:		Zdeněk Brož |  
lobed leaf (encz) | lobed leaf,	n:		 |  
lobed spleenwort (encz) | lobed spleenwort,	n:		 |  
more obediently (encz) | more obediently,poslušněji			 |  
obedience (encz) | obedience,podřízenost	n:		PetrVobedience,poslušnost	n:		PetrVobedience,věřící	n:	příslušník církve	PetrV |  
obedience plant (encz) | obedience plant,	n:		 |  
obedient (encz) | obedient,poslušný			 |  
obedient plant (encz) | obedient plant,	n:		 |  
obediently (encz) | obediently,poslušně	adv:		Václav Dvořák |  
probed (encz) | probed,sondoval	v:		Zdeněk Brož |  
robed (encz) | robed,	adj:		 |  
strobed (encz) | strobed,			 |  
trilobed (encz) | trilobed,	adj:		 |  
unlobed (encz) | unlobed,	adj:		 |  
obednění (czen) | obednění,casing		Zdeněk Brožobednění,encasementn:		Zdeněk Brož |  
appareled attired clad dressed garbed garmented habilimented robed (gcide) | clothed \clothed\ adj.
    1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: {adorned(predicate),
       bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked
       out(predicate)}; {appareled, attired, clad, dressed,
       garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed}; {arrayed,
       panoplied}; breeched, pantalooned, trousered;
       bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed:
       decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms:
       {dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to
       kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up}]
       [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited]
       [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms:
       overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower
       terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms:
       surpliced] [Narrower terms: {togged dressed esp in smart
       clothes)}] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms:
       underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower
       terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated.
       Antonym: unclothed.
       [WordNet 1.5]
 
    2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
       fog-cloaked meadows
 
    Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.
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Bilobed (gcide) | Bilobed \Bi"lobed\ (b[imac]"l[=o]bd), a. [Pref. bi- + lobe.]
    Bilobate.
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Canonical obedience (gcide) | Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
    oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
    1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
       compliance with that which is required by authority;
       subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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             Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
                                                   --Ames.
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    2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
       dutifulness. --Shak.
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    3. (Eccl.)
       (a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
           Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
           submit to the authority of the pope.
       (b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
           a prior.
       (c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
       (d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
           or congregation to a subject.
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    Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
 
    Passive obedience. See under Passive.
       [1913 Webster]canonic \ca*non"ic\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]k), canonical
 \ca*non"ic*al\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [L. canonicus, 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.
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    2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the
       Christian New Testament.
       [PJC]
 
    3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
       [PJC]
 
    4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest
       form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
       [PJC]
 
    5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant
       form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical
       syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
 
    Syn: standard. [WordNet 1.5]
 
    6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
       [PJC]
 
    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.
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Conglobed (gcide) | Conglobe \Con*globe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conglobed; p. pr. &
    vb. n. Conglobing.] [L. conglobare: cf. F. conglober. Cf.
    Conglobate.]
    To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
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          Then founded, then conglobed
          Like things to like.                     --Milton.
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Disobedience (gcide) | Disobedience \Dis`o*be"di*ence\, n.
    Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or
    prohibition.
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          He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open
          disobedience.                            --Tillotson.
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Disobediency (gcide) | Disobediency \Dis`o*be"di*en*cy\, n.
    Disobedience.
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Disobedient (gcide) | 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.
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             This disobedient spirit in the colonies. --Burke.
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             Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. --1 Kings
                                                   xiii. 26.
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    2. Not yielding.
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             Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten
             life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the
             system disobedient to stimuli.        --E. Darwin.
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Disobediently (gcide) | Disobediently \Dis`o*be"di*ent*ly\, adv.
    In a disobedient manner.
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Disrobed (gcide) | Disrobe \Dis*robe"\ (?; see Dis-), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
    Disrobed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disrobing.]
    To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of
    covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as,
    autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
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          Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. --Sir H.
                                                   Wotton.
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Globed (gcide) | Globe \Globe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Globed; p. pr. & vb. n.
    Globing.]
    To gather or form into a globe.
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Inobedience (gcide) | Inobedience \In`o*be"di*ence\, n. [L. inoboedientia : cf. F.
    inobedience.]
    Disobedience. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Chaucer.
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Inobedient (gcide) | 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.]
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Inobediently (gcide) | 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.]
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Lobed (gcide) | Lobed \Lobed\ (l[=o]bd), a.
    Having lobes; lobate.
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Misobedience (gcide) | Misobedience \Mis`o*be"di*ence\, n.
    Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Nonobedience (gcide) | Nonobedience \Non`o*be"di*ence\ (n[o^]n`[-o]*b[=e]"d[i^]*ens),
    n.
    Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
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Obedible (gcide) | Obedible \O*be"di*ble\, a.
    Obedient. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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Obedience (gcide) | Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
    oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
    1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
       compliance with that which is required by authority;
       subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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             Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
                                                   --Ames.
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    2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
       dutifulness. --Shak.
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    3. (Eccl.)
       (a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
           Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
           submit to the authority of the pope.
       (b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
           a prior.
       (c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
       (d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
           or congregation to a subject.
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    Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
 
    Passive obedience. See under Passive.
       [1913 Webster]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.
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    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.
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    Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
       monastery in some other country.
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    Syn: See Cloister.
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obedience (gcide) | Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
    oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
    1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
       compliance with that which is required by authority;
       subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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             Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
                                                   --Ames.
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    2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
       dutifulness. --Shak.
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    3. (Eccl.)
       (a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
           Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
           submit to the authority of the pope.
       (b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
           a prior.
       (c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
       (d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
           or congregation to a subject.
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    Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
 
    Passive obedience. See under Passive.
       [1913 Webster]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.
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    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.
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    Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
       monastery in some other country.
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    Syn: See Cloister.
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Obedienciary (gcide) | Obedienciary \O*be`di*en"ci*a*ry\, n.
    One yielding obedience. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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Obedient (gcide) | Obedient \O*be"di*ent\, a. [OF. obedient, L. obediens,
    oboediens, -entis. p. pr. of obedire, oboedire, to obey. See
    Obey.]
    Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey;
    submissive to restraint, control, or command.
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          And floating straight, obedient to the stream. --Shak.
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          The chief his orders gives; the obedient band,
          With due observance, wait the chief's command. --Pope.
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    Syn: Dutiful; respectful; compliant; submissive.
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Obediential (gcide) | Obediential \O*be`di*en"tial\, a. [Cf. F. ob['e]dientiel.]
    According to the rule of obedience. [R.]
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          An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. --Sir
                                                   M. Hale.
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Obediently (gcide) | Obediently \O*be"di*ent*ly\, adv.
    In an obedient manner; with obedience.
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Palmatilobed (gcide) | Palmatilobed \Pal*mat"i*lobed\, a. [L. palmatus palmate + E.
    lobed.] (Bot.)
    Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to
    the common center.
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Passive obedience (gcide) | Obedience \O*be"di*ence\, n. [F. ob['e]dience, L. obedientia,
    oboedientia. See Obedient, and cf. Obeisance.]
    1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient;
       compliance with that which is required by authority;
       subjection to rightful restraint or control.
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             Government must compel the obedience of individuals.
                                                   --Ames.
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    2. Words or actions denoting submission to authority;
       dutifulness. --Shak.
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    3. (Eccl.)
       (a) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman
           Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who
           submit to the authority of the pope.
       (b) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by
           a prior.
       (c) One of the three monastic vows. --Shipley.
       (d) The written precept of a superior in a religious order
           or congregation to a subject.
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    Canonical obedience. See under Canonical.
 
    Passive obedience. See under Passive.
       [1913 Webster]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.
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             The passive air
             Upbore their nimble tread.            --Milton.
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             The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
             its simple ideas.                     --Locke.
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    2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or
       active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient;
       not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive
       submission.
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             The best virtue, passive fortitude.   --Massinger.
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    3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; unreactive; not showing strong
       affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
         suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
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Probed (gcide) | Probe \Probe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Probed; p. pr. & vb. n.
    Probing.] [L. probare to try, examine. See Prove.]
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    1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the
       body, with a probe.
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    2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine
       thoroughly. --Dryden.
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             The growing disposition to probe the legality of all
             acts, of the crown.                   --Hallam.
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Quadrilobed (gcide) | Quadrilobate \Quad`ri*lo"bate\, Quadrilobed \Quad`ri*lobed\, a.
    [Quadri- + lobe: cf. F. quadrilob['e].]
    Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.
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Quinquelobed (gcide) | Quinquelobed \Quin"que*lobed`\, a. [Quinque- + lobe.]
    Same as Quinquelobate.
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Robed (gcide) | Robe \Robe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Robed; p. pr. & vb. n.
    Robing.]
    To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as,
    fields robed with green.
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          The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared. --Pope.
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          Such was his power over the expression of his
          countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the
          sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest
          smiles of spring.                        --Wirt.
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Robe-de-chambre (gcide) | Robe-de-chambre \Robe`-de-cham"bre\, n. [F., lit., a chamber
    gown.]
    A dressing gown, or morning gown.
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Three-lobed (gcide) | Three-lobed \Three"-lobed`\, a.
    Having three lobes.
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    Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts,
       the sinuses extending not more than half way to the
       middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
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Three-lobed leaf (gcide) | Three-lobed \Three"-lobed`\, a.
    Having three lobes.
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    Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts,
       the sinuses extending not more than half way to the
       middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
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Trilobed (gcide) | Trilobed \Tri"lobed\, a. [Pref. tri- + lobe.]
    Same as Trilobate.
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Unobedience (gcide) | Unobedience \Un`o*be"di*ence\, n.
    Disobedience. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Unobedient (gcide) | Unobedient \Un`o*be"di*ent\, a.
    Disobedient. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Unprobed (gcide) | Unprobed \Unprobed\
    See probed. |  
Unrobed (gcide) | Unrobed \Unrobed\
    See robed. |  
Your most humble most obedient servant (gcide) | 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.
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             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.
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    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.
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    2. One in a state of subjection or bondage.
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             Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v.
                                                   15.
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    3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.]
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             In my time a servant was I one.       --Chaucer.
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    Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of
       servitude.
 
    Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of
       civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now
       archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to
       include Your most humble, most obedient servant.
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             Our betters tell us they are our humble servants,
             but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
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Your obedient servant (gcide) | 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.
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             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.
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    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.
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    2. One in a state of subjection or bondage.
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             Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. --Deut. v.
                                                   15.
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    3. A professed lover or suitor; a gallant. [Obs.]
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             In my time a servant was I one.       --Chaucer.
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    Servant of servants, one debased to the lowest condition of
       servitude.
 
    Your humble servant, or Your obedient servant, phrases of
       civility formerly often used in closing a letter, now
       archaic; -- at one time such phrases were exaggerated to
       include Your most humble, most obedient servant.
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             Our betters tell us they are our humble servants,
             but understand us to be their slaves. --Swift.
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bilobed (wn) | bilobed
     adj 1: having two lobes; "a bilobate leaf" [syn: bilobate,
            bilobated, bilobed] |  
civil disobedience (wn) | civil disobedience
     n 1: a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the
          law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination);
          "Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil
          disobedience" |  
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