respect and obedience to someone or something, often shown by bending your head or the upper part of your body 颔首行禮,鞠躬示意
make/pay obeisance (to somebody/something)
They made obeisance to the sultan.
他們向蘇丹鞠躬行禮。
Examples from the Corpus
obeisance• When they are successful a bellrings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creakyobeisance.• Victory is both a felicitousdip of the head and a gloriousobeisance towards the changed life that will surely follow it.• The grail itself was sin, none other than sin itself; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all?• Alexei completed his obeisance, then sat up.• We all make obeisance to it.• In the meantime, let's not forget that icons are not for passiveobeisance.• Was she about to make some obeisance to it?• Joseph saw Tran Van Hieu and his father make their obeisance gravely beside other high-ranking Annamese.
make/pay obeisance (to somebody/something)• We all make obeisance to it.