Word Finder - oblige

definition

To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.

example

I am obliged to report to the police station every week.

definition

To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).

example

He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.

definition

To be indebted to someone.

example

I am obliged to you for your recent help.

But what is there to oblige him to reply?

That's one thing I would be glad to oblige you with.

Thank good­ness for Colorado hospitality—the friendly room clerk was more than willing to oblige a law enforcement agent.

You've got to have a new handbag to go with them, and, like many of his fellow designers, Steve Madden is happy to oblige.

Bennett (Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia), " is by one of the hind legs; its powerful resistance and the sharpness of the spines will soon oblige the captor, attempting to seize it by any other part of the body, to relinquish his hold."

But royaute oblige! * and he felt it incumbent on him, as a king and an ally, to confer on state affairs with Alexander's envoy.

She desperately wants to keep the surrogacy and her family's financial woes a secret, and the others oblige.

For example, if the family request is for your famous lasagna and you oblige, yet you are faced with a Jenny Craig prepackaged version, it may be difficult to enjoy YOUR meal as you should.

They are almost always happy to oblige unless they are demonstrating a technique in which case they might not have a recipe.

I want to oblige, only I want the mix to kill them.

But for those wanting higher handlebars, or even a four-wheel trailer base, Fletcher Stewart can oblige.

The coeds are treated like beauty queens and are generally happy to oblige with a few autographs, as well as express their appreciation for their fans.

Thank good­ness for Colorado hospitality—the friendly room clerk was more than willing to oblige a law enforcement agent.

The Emperor proposes to give all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.

As to the barons, the king took the important constitutional step of conceding that he would not ask them to serve abroad as a feudal obligation, but would pay them for their services, if they would oblige him by joining his banner.

A force of l000 men was placed at the disposal of the podestd and capitano (now both elected by the people) to keep order and oblige the grandi to respect the law.

One of the consequences of the persecutions of which he was the object was to oblige him to spend three years, from 1896 to 1899, in England, where his participation in the management of the Suez Canal had won for him some strong friendships, and where he was able to see the great respect in which the memory and name of his father were held by Englishmen.

The unknown author, as may be inferred from the treatise itself, did not write to make money, but to oblige his relative and friend Herennius, for whose instruction he promises to supply other works on grammar, military matters and political administration.

Notwithstanding these however, the great similarities between a and, 3 oblige us to assume that the translator of HR used the Greek version of H a, or vice versa.