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obligated


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Obligate  \Ob"li*gate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Obligated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Obligating}.]  [L.  obligatus  p.  p.  of  obligare.  See 
  {Oblige}.] 
  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  to  compel;  to  constrain; 
  to  bind  to  any  act  of  duty  or  courtesy  by  a  formal  pledge. 
 
  That  they  may  not  incline  or  be  obligated  to  any 
  vile  or  lowly  occupations.  --Landor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  obligated 
  adj  :  caused  by  law  or  conscience  to  follow  a  certain  course; 
  "felt  obligated  to  repay  the  kindness";  "was  obligated 
  to  pay  off  the  student  loan"  [syn:  {obligated(p)}] 
  [ant:  {unobligated}] 




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