Word Meanings - BEHOLDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.
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- OBLIGABLE
Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson. - INDEBT
To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel. - OBLIGER
One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton. - OBLIGEMENT
Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton. - INDEBTED
1. Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden. By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. Milton. 2. Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude - INDEBTEDNESS
1. The state of being indebted. 2. The sum owed; debts, collectively. - INDEBTMENT
Indebtedness. Bp. Hall. - OBLIGATORINESS
The quality or state of being obligatory. - OBLIGATO
See OBBLIGATO - GRATEFUL
1. Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays. - OBLIGATION
A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things. Days of obligation. See under Day. (more info) 1. The act of obligating. 2. That - OBLIGATORILY
In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation. Foxe. - THANKFUL
1. Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert. 2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge - OBLIGOR
The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone. - BEHOLDEN
Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson. - OBLIGEE
The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone. - OBLIGING
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison. Syn. -- Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- - OBLIGATORY
Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. - OBLIGE
1. To attach, as by a bond. 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 - OBLIGATE
1. To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. "Obligated by a sense of duty." Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill. 2. To bind or firmly hold to an act; - INGRATEFUL
1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness, - DISOBLIGER
One who disobliges. - DISOBLIGE
1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come - DISOBLIGEMENT
Release from obligation. - DISOBLIGATORY
Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.