Oblige

Definition of Oblige

O`blige´ Pronunciation: ô`blīj´; 277

v. t.	1.	To attach, as by a bond. [imp. & p. p. Obliged (ôblījd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Obliging (ôblī"jĭng).] He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. - Bacon.
	2.	To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it. - South. Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health. - Tillotson.
	3.	To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate. Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more. - Dryden. The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII. - Evelyn. I shall be more obliged to you than I can express. - Mrs. E. Montagu.

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