Word of the Day: OBEDIBLE


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin oboedire (to obey) + -bilis (-ble)


EXAMPLE
“…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; besides the very horrour which ariseth from the place whereto they are everlastingly confined?…”

From: Contemplations upon the Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Holy Jesus
By Joseph Hall, 1623

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