Definition of "obey"

obey

/oʊˈbeɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present obeys, present participle obeying, simple past and past participle obeyed
1. (transitive) To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
2. (intransitive) To do as one is told.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
  Quotations
  They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie