1382. Wyclif, Titus i. 10. Ther ben manye vnobedient, and veyn spekeris.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 15. Þe pacient is waike of herte or vnobedient for to persew his cure.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 71. Who-so were vnobedyent to his fadyr & modyr. Ibid. It is perylous to be vnobedyent to þi souerayn.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 56. O man presumpteous and vnobedient.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps., To Rdr. 7. If they had not bin vtterlye vnobedient too all good counsel.
1614. W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), 81. The Wall-nut is vnobedient to Digestion, and much hinders egestion.
1641. Milton, Reform., II. 50. Pepin, not unobedient to the Popes call,… frees him out of danger.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VIII. x. But unobedient to that well-known voice, His eye was seeking it.
