About The Word Oblige
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Oblige
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What's The Definition Of Oblige?
[v] bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
[v] provide a service or favor for someone; "We had to oblige him" [v] force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form" Synonyms | Synonyms for Oblige: accommodate | bind | compel | hold | obligate | obligate Related Terms | Find terms related to Oblige: accommodate | aid | assist | avail | benefit | bind | brook no denial | call for | cater to | coddle | coerce | commit | compel | concuss | constrain | contribute | convenience | cosset | demand | dictate | do a favor | do a service | do right by | exact | favor | force | give way to | gratify | help | humor | impose | indulge | insist upon | leave no option | make | make imperative | make incumbent | mollycoddle | necessitate | obligate | pamper | please | pledge | profit | require | saddle with | satisfy | serve | shotgun | show kindness to | spoil | take no denial | tie | treat well | yield to See Also | abide by | act | apply | article | cause | clamor | coerce | comply | condemn | enforce | follow | force | get | hale | have | implement | indent | indenture | induce | make | move | pledge | pressure | relate | shame | stimulate | thrust | tie down | walk Oblige In Webster's Dictionary \O*blige"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Obliged}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Obliging}.] [OF. obligier, F. obliger, L. obligare; ob
(see {Ob-}) + ligare to bind. See {Ligament}, and cf.
{Obligate}.]
1. To attach, as by a bond. [Obs.]
He had obliged all the senators and magistrates
firmly to himself. --Bacon.
2. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put
under obligation to do or forbear something.
The obliging power of the law is neither founded in,
nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments
annexed to it. --South.
Religion obliges men to the practice of those
virtues which conduce to the preservation of our
health. --Tillotson.
3. To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt;
hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to
accommodate.
Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar,
And would not be obliged to God for more. --Dryden.
The gates before it are brass, and the whole much
obliged to Pope Urban VIII. --Evelyn.
I shall be more obliged to you than I can express.
--Mrs. E.
Montagu.
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