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Definitions for: 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: accommodate, bind, compel, hold, obligate, obligate
Antonyms: disoblige
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
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