Category:Obligate

Ob"li*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obligated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obligating.] Etym: [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.