Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            (adj) submissive to the restraint or command of authority; willing to obey Scriptures: Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 1:19 II Corinthians 2:9
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke