Obeisance (Hastings' Dictionary)

‘ Obeisant’ and ‘ obeisance,’ com- ing through the French, have been superseded by ‘ qhediant and ‘obedience’ which came directly from the Lat. obediens. Maundeville, Travels, 155, says, ‘In that Lond chei have a Queen, that governethe alle that Lond; and alle thei ben obeyssant to hire.’ And Berners, Froissart, p. 85 (Globe ed.)

, has, ‘And when the month was ex- pired that they of Segur should give up their town, the earl sent thither, and they of the town rave up and became under the obeisance of the ‘ing of England.’ The form is already rare in the sixteenth century. When found it is almost always in the phrase ‘make obeisance’ or ‘do obeisance.’ Sha —— has the subst. once (the adj. not at all) in the phrase ‘Call him “‘ madam,” do him obeisance’—Tam. Shrew, Ind. i. 108. But AV has retained from Tindale, as the tr.

of any shahah (in its Hithpael conj.), ‘make obeisance’ in Gn 377-* 43%, 2 Ch 24", and ‘do obeisance’ in Ex 187, 2S 1? 144 155, 1K 1% Το the examples of ‘do obeisance’ RV makes some additions, viz., for AV ‘do reverence’ in 2S 95,1 Καὶ 1%; for AV ‘bow oneself’ in 1 § 248 9819, 2S 98 14%] Καὶ 1%; and for AV ‘humbly beseech’ in 2S 16. The Heb. verb in the form so tr4 means to prostrate oneself in reverence or worship, and is variously rendered both in AV and RV, though its usual tr. is ‘worship.

’ See WoRsHIP. J. HASTINGs.