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    [Verb]  | "ob*li*gate" | \ ˈä-blə-ˌgāt \


    1: to bind legally or morally : constrain

    2: to commit (something, such as funds) to meet an obligation


    Origin: 1533 ;

     Borrowed from Latin obligātus, past participle of obligāre "to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint" {mat|oblige|};

    [Adjective]  | "ob*li*gate" | \ ˈä-bli-gət \


    1: restricted to one particularly characteristic mode of life

    2: biologically essential for survival


    Origin: 1887 ;

     Borrowed from German obligat "necessary, unavoidable," borrowed from Latin obligātus "under an obligation," from past participle of obligāre "to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint" {mat|oblige|};

      * Note : In biological sense apparently adapted from use of German obligat by the mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831-88) in Vergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und Bacterien (Leipzig, 1884), p. 382 ff.;

    [Verb]  | "obligate" 


    1: to cause (a person) to give in to pressure;


      * e.g., " ... the problem is of your own making, so don't think that you can obligate me to help "



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     [ "obligation" ]

    1: Obligation.

      * e.g.,  ... Jane: "That's not what obligation means, look it up in a dictionary. Try dictionary.com. 


     [ "obligation" ]

    2: An obligation is something you may not like or even enjoy doing but you do it out of respect or some profound sense of duty.

      * e.g.,  ... Dick: "Actually, urbandictionary has a pretty good definition you omnipotent whore." 


     [ "obligation" ]

    3: Don't ever tell your girlfriend that you're attending her 21st birthday party out of obligation. She's not American born and English is her 2nd language; she doesn't fully understand its definition. She has absolutely zero respect and will never have any sense of duty. She will fight with you for days over the true definition of the word, implying that somehow, duty has a "negative" connotation. As she verbally castrates you, you will be constantly reminded of how pussy-whipped you are and how she abuses your fear of being alone to her advantage. Your relationship with the man eating bitch, no matter how gorgeous she is, will strongly parallel repeatedly running head first into a brick wall and loving it. Even after you’ve accepted defeat, admitted your wrong doings, and apologized for them, she will continue to berate you over the fact that she is never wrong.


     [ "obligation" ]

    4: Four years of college… wasted out of fucking obligation.


     [ "obligation" ]

    5: Obligation.


     [ "Obligent" ]

    1: Someone bound by ones values and word to oblige by providing service and favors Word component and origin :

      * e.g.,  ... My dentist is obligent to me for having created his website. I am obligent to create your social media plan for you 


     [ "Obligent" ]

    2: (a) Word components of obligent = oblige + -ent (suffix equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns of Latin origin)


     [ "Obligent" ]

    3: (b) Origin of oblige (verb) is from Latin obligare (ob + ligare) meaning "to bind, bind up, bandage." In modern English means "to put under obligation." (c) The suffix -ant produces nouns from verbs. It has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that named by the stem, e.g. consultant = consult + ant = one serving to consult.

     [ "oblig" ]

    1: A short-hand version of obligatory. It can be used to show agreement or as a stand alone exclamation.

      * e.g.,  ... Friend: Hey are you going to the Abbey this weekend? 

     [ "oblige" ]

    1: To agree to do something. To do something you feel obligated to do. To do something to pay a debt or putting someone in your debt.

      * e.g.,  ... "I can't believe you got Henry to lend you his car!" "He owes me money so he had to oblige." 

     [ "Obligation" ]

    1: After taking a filthy poop, wiping your butt and accidently getting some poop on the hand. Then, taking your hand and smelling it because you feel obligated to. You know it is going to smell like sh!t but you just are obligated.

      * e.g.,  ... "man i walked out of the bathroom and had the obligation." 

     [ "oblige" ]

    1: make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something.

      * e.g.,  ... "doctors are obliged by law to keep patients alive while there is a chance of recovery" 

     [ "Obligating" ]

    1: Verb. When one is doing things out of obligation rather than wishes or desires.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm obligating today, taking mom to her doctor's appointment, though I know she can drive herself, and then have to meet with Jeanine, because I haven't seen her in months and she is going through a divorce. John is obligating, off with some buddies he hasn't seen in two years, just because they asked him to go; he didn't even want to go! 

     [ "Obligation" ]

    1: To have to do something, regardless if you want to

      * e.g.,  ... That hot little blonde has an obligation to please daddy, whenever wherever 

     [ "obligated" ]

    1: An incorrect synonym for "obliged", which appears in some dictionaries, but none of the good ones.

      * e.g.,  ... John: "I feel obligated to go to this dinner with my In-laws" 

     [ "Natural Obligation" ]

    1: A euphemism reffering to sexual intercourse, according to a Ugandan news host.

      * e.g.,  ... "Do you perform the natural obligation?" 

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