To comply with the wishes or commands of; submit to, as in duty bound; be subject to; serve with dutifulness.
To comply with; carry out; perform; execute.
To submit to the power, control, or influence of: as, a ship obeys her helm.
To submit (one's self).
To yield or give up; submit to power, authority, control, or influence; do as bidden or directed: as, will you obey? Formerly sometimes followed by to.