obtemperate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin obtemperare, obtemperatum (“to obey”).
Verb
editobtemperate (third-person singular simple present obtemperates, present participle obtemperating, simple past and past participle obtemperated)
- (obsolete) To obey or to conform to the prescribed rule or law.
- 1752, Lord Andrew MacDowall Bankton, An Institute of the Laws of Scotland in Civil Rights:
- […] penalty of not obtemperating the interlocutory order of the court
References
edit- “obtemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
editParticiple
editobtemperāte