Word Meanings - OBLIGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLIGE)

• Accommodate
• Convenience
• oblige
• adapt
• supply
• reconcile
• suit
• fit
• adjust
• furnish
• serve
• harmonize
• Bind
• Fetter
• engage
• tie
• fasten
• secure
• lace
• twine
• compel
• restrict
• restrain
• Compel
• Force
• drive
• constrain
• necessitate
• make
• coerce
• bind
• Enjoin
• Impress
• mand
• commission
• direct
• order
• ordain
• admonish
• appoint
• prescribe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBLIGE)

• Learn
• be impressed
• be studious
• be mindful
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to OBLIGE)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.