The Devil's Dictionary: Disobey

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
DISOBEDIENCE
DISSEMBLE

DISOBEY

-v.t.

To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.

His right to govern me is clear as day,
My duty manifest to disobey;
And if that fit observance e'er I shut
May I and duty be alike undone.

- Israfel Brown

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