OBEDIENT Copy link • OBEDIENTobediens, dicto audiens. (The words are found in this connection and order.) dicto audiens atque obediens, obtemperans (all with a dative of that which one obeys): to be obedient [Vid. HEARKEN, OBEY]: to make anybody more obedient, aliquem obedientiorem facere (of things): your most obedient servant (in modern letter-writing), *tibi ad quaeque praestanda paratissimus.