单词 | obeyable |
释义 | obeyableadj. rare before 19th cent. Able to be obeyed; deserving of obedience. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > that can or should be obeyed obeyablec1475 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 86 (MED) O how woundirful and how worþi, how preiseable, loueable, and obeiable a þing is þis þing now seid, which is god. 1676 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason in Phenix (1708) II. 550 No Authority is obeyable or believable in it self, without farther examination. 1894 Season 10 No. 9. 36/2 The tenth commandment appears to me fairly obeyable. 1971 Mind 80 388 Thus we arrive at a series of principles which when interpreted in the right way are unbreachable... There is a corresponding undisobeyable but obeyable command. 1980 Jrnl. Philos. 77 128 Analogously we can define a set of rules as consistent if there is some possible world in which they are all obeyable in all circumstances in that world. 1992 Noûs 26 257 Moral dilemmas are not typically understood as cases in which moral requirements are jointly obeyable in no possible world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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