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c1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 902) viii. 3021* (MED) Ben we alle wel beholde To do service and obeyssaunce To him [sc. Christ].

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 2281 (MED) To you, Cupide and Venus bothe, With al myn hertes obeissance I preie.

c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 93 This straunge knyght..Salueth kyng and queene and lordes alle By ordre as they seten in the halle With so heigh reuerence and obeisaunce As wel in speche as in contenaunce.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1375 Of thy feyned trouthe..With thyn obeysaunce and humble cheere.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 168 (MED) The kyng lowly with deuout obeysaunce Prayde thou woldyst in thyn Orysouns Haue hym dayly in thy remembraunce.

a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 141 (MED) Mercy me graunt off þat I me compleyne, to ȝow my lyfis soueraigne plesaunz; And ese ȝour seruaunt of the importabyl peyne þat I suffre in ȝour obeysaunz.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 870 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 122 Quhom yai ressaif with reuerens And bowsome obeysance.

c1530 Court of Love 46 Love arted me to do myn observaunce To his astate, and doon him obeysaunce.

1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 19 Vouchsafe me that honour, as to present the most humble and devotionall Obeisance of a dying servant to her Majesty.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1661 (1955) III. 277 After Obesience on their severall approches to the Throne.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 167. ⁋3 A Throne to which conquered Nations yielded Obeysance.

1796 E. Inchbald Nature & Art I. xi. 62 He walked into the room, not with a dictated obeisance, but with a hurrying step.

1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders IV. 220 The spiritual dignitaries, who in those days vailed not their bonnets to created thing, bestowed on the King..their blessing instead of obeisance.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 150 There was not a farmer's grey-beard between the Lothians and the Solway filled with spirit that had done obeisance to King George.

1928 P. Neilson Matabele at Home ii. 38 It had become customary for many of the Matabele to go to the Umlimo's cave..at regular intervals, and there to make obeisance by presenting the Umlimo with cattle and beer.

1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) xix. 253 In the jungle we paid obeisance to the alpha male of our group, accepting his desires as law.

1608 R. Johnson Hist. Seuen Champions Christendome (new ed.) i. 106 Her wonted beautie (to whose excellent fairenesse, all the Ladyes in the world did sometimes yeeld obeysance) was now stayned.

1681 A. Radcliffe Ovid Travestie (ed. 2) 112 At last I spake, and bow'd in seemly wise, And paid obeysance to your sparkling Eyes.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VIII. 164 The eye must do obeisance to the window, and discourse submit to sensation.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. ii. 31 Edgar referred the matter to Indiana, to whose already exquisite beauty his juvenile admiration paid its most early obeisance.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. v. l. 222 He..can level himself with the narrowest and most illiberal of his race, to pay coward obeisance to appearances!

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iii. 62 Hepzibah had unconsciously flattered herself with the idea that there would be a gleam or halo..about her person, which would insure an obeisance to her sterling gentility.

1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1868) i. 6 He [sc. John the Baptist] did obeisance to the royalty of inward happiness.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 129/2 While still paying a dutiful obeisance to the Woodrovian doctrine of ‘neutrality’, he began his active propaganda for American participation.

1962 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 27 317/2 By status obeisance we refer to the value placed on authority for its own sake.

1995 T. Parks Ital. Educ. 179 Maestra Elena arrives, dressed to the nines.., the same sort of obvious obeisance to the big occasion as is suggested in the neat geometry of fresh turf.