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Webster 1913 Edition

Obeisance

O-bei′sance

,

Noun.

[F.

obéissance

obedience, fr.

obéissant

. See

, and cf.

,

.]

1.

Obedience.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Bathsheba bowed and did

obeisance

unto the king.

1 Kings i. 16.

Webster 1828 Edition

Obeisance

OBE'ISANCE

,

Noun.

[L. obedio.]

A bow or courtesy; an act of reverence made by an inclination of the body or the knee. Gen. 37.