unobedient

From Middle English unobedient. Equivalent to un- +‎ obedient.

unobedient (comparative more unobedient, superlative most unobedient)

1. (obsolete, now rare or nonstandard) Disobedient.
   • 1571, John Calvin, “Iohn Calvin to the Godly Readers Sendeth Greeting”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The Psalmes of Dauid and Others. With M. Iohn Caluin’s Commentaries, London: Thomas East and Henry Middelton; for Lucas Harison, and Gorge Byshop, →OCLC, 1st part:

     For although they were worthy of any puniſhment: yit had I leuer they might haue flooriſhed in welfare and ſafetie: which had come to paſſe, if they had not bin vtterlye vnobedient too all good counſel.

   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 43:

     Pepin, not unobedient to the Popes call, passing into Italy, frees him out of danger, […]

   • 1801, Robert Southey, “The Eighth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: or T N Longman and O Rees, , by Biggs and Cottle, , →OCLC, page 103:

     But unobedient to that well-known voice / His eye was seeking it, / When Moath firm of heart, / Performed the bidding; […]

• unobedience

• “unobedient, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• “unobedient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

un- +‎ obedient.

unobedient

1. disobedient
2. (anatomy, of a limb or muscle) unresponsive, inflexible
3. (pathology, of an abscess, tumor, or diseased tissue) resistant to treatment
4. (of a food) not amenable to digestion; indigestible
5. (anatomy, of a humor) unresponsive, obstructive
6. (of a metal) not malleable

• “unobēdient, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.