Obey vs Believe - What's the difference?
obey | believe |
To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
To do as one is told.
(obsolete) To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
In transitive terms the difference between obey and believe
is that obey is to do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of while believe is to accept that someone is telling the truth.In intransitive terms the difference between obey and believe
is that obey is to do as one is told while believe is to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.obey
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Verb
(en verb)- They were all taught by Triton, to obay / To the long raynes, at her commaundement [...].
Antonyms
* disobey * defy * rebel * resist * violate (especially rules )External links
* * 1000 English basic wordsbelieve
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Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}