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Obligated   Listen
adjective
obligated  adj.  
1.
Under a moral obligation to someone.
Synonyms: beholden(predicate).
2.
Under a legal obligation to someone.
Synonyms: indebted.
3.
Owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc. Opposite of unobligated. (Narrower terms: supposed(predicate), required)
Synonyms: indebted.






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"Obligated" Quotes from Famous Books



... hold in the line. They are not entitled, except the authorized aides and in some other particular cases, when ordered by the War Department, to additional allowances; but if they are foot officers, and are properly detailed for mounted duty, the quartermaster of the staff on which they serve is obligated to furnish them a horse and equipments. Divisions usually have an ordnance officer, whose duty it is to take charge of the ammunition of the division, keep the quantity ordered, and supply the troops in time of battle. By law the ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... toward the bridge. And because he had no right to speak—obligated to silence by two reasons—that easy-speaking scoundrel might trap her fancy. It could not be denied that he was handsome, but he was nevertheless a rogue. The two reasons why he must not speak were potent. In the first place, he had nothing to offer; in the ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... of course, prescriptive. But given its age and its purpose this ought not to be construed in the contemporary, pejorative {4} sense. Collado, as Rodriguez and indeed all the grammarians of the period, felt obligated to train their students in those patterns of speech which were appropriate to the most polite elements of society. Particularly as they addressed themselves to missionaries, they wished to warn them away from ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

... little remembrance pleased you," answered Albert pleasantly, "it was only a trifle, and you need not feel obligated for it." He kept on after Uncle Terry, not wishing to waste any time; but she followed to add more thanks, ending with, "God bless ye, sir; an' may He warm the heart o' one good ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn

... moneys are not enough to sustain a pair of grooms and a pair of palfreys, and more wine hath been drunken in my presence at a feast. The moneys are given to such men, that they may not incline nor be obligated to any vile or lowly occupation; and the canary, that they may entertain such promising wits as court their company and converse; and that in such manner there may be alway in our land a succession of ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... seed him and heard him too, Sunday fore last, when I went to call upon old father; I was obligated to go to church, the old gemman's ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... of the penny publications for the benefit of Mr Frost's disciples. A poor man and woman, on their way to the parson's hayfield, complain to each other of their hard lot in being obliged to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. "Why," asks the woman, "should I be more obligated to work than the fine Dame Agnes? What is she more than me? The man, unable to solve so knotty a point, says he doesn't see how he himself is not as good as a lord's son, but he will ask Sir Roger the parson, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various

... obligated to say it, an' so it is writ in the family record colume in the big Bible, though I spelt his Senior with a little s, an' writ him down ez the only son of the Senior with the big S, which it seems to me fixes it about right for ...
— Sonny, A Christmas Guest • Ruth McEnery Stuart

... for the support of Indians who may be unable to support themselves and have not acquired a settlement in any town. Upon the application of an Indian who received aid from the commonwealth prior to the twenty-third day of July in the year 1869, the State Board was obligated to furnish him in the State hospital or elsewhere such aid as it ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... "cover" will have reached London from the banker in America who drew the "nineties," and the maturing bills will be paid out of that. The foreign lender, in other words, is at no stage out of any actual capital, although it is true, of course, that he has obligated himself to pay the drafts on maturity, by ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher

... easily understood as the one now under discussion. There is no more proof in this verse that a woman is bound to serve and obey her husband, in the common acceptation of the term, than that a man is obligated to serve and obey his wife, or worship her with his body—whatever that may mean—as he solemnly vows to do in certain marriage services. The endowment with worldly goods and the worship promised, were perhaps put in as an offset to the pledge of service and obedience. Certainly the ...
— Woman: Man's Equal • Thomas Webster

... FELLOW—I likes the maxum of it. Master Muggins. What, though I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison, if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes—'Water Parted,' or 'The ...
— The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People • John George Bourinot

... to recover assessments made under the laws of New York.[107] Also, in a suit to enforce double liability, brought in Rhode Island against a stockholder in a Kansas trust company, the courts of Rhode Island were held to be obligated to extend recognition to the statutes and court decisions of Kansas whereunder it is established that a Kansas judgment recovered by a creditor against the trust company is not only conclusive as to the liability ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... looking mysterious, he said he wanted to have a word with Bax in private, and would be obligated if he'd go with him a ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... than in Christ himself. When our nature is already all too prone to run from God and Christ, and trust in humanity, it is indeed difficult to learn to trust in God and Christ, even though we have vowed to do so and are therefore obligated to do so. Therefore, this offense is not to be tolerated whereby those who are weak and of the flesh participate in idolatry, against the first commandment and our baptism. Even if one tries nothing other than to switch their trust from the saints to Christ, through teaching ...
— An Open Letter on Translating • Gary Mann

... Scientist, every conscientious teacher of the Science of Mind-healing, knows that human will 451:21 is not Christian Science, and he must recog- nize this in order to defend himself from the influence of human will. He feels morally obligated to 451:24 open the eyes of his students that they may perceive the nature and methods of error of every sort, especially any subtle degree of evil, deceived and deceiving. All mental 451:27 malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... Society an arrangement was made with each of the State societies whereby they agreed to operate financially their respective territories and to turn into the national treasury the several sums which at the annual meeting they obligated themselves to contribute to the general work. This arrangement was intended to avoid the expense, conflict, and confusion consequent upon the employment of two sets of agents to work the same territory. Matters ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke



Words linked to "Obligated" :   duty-bound, beholden, supposed, indebted



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