Read full poem →If our care and endeavours to do our authors right (in an incorrupt
and genuine edition of their works) and thereby to gratify and oblige the
reader, be but requited with a suitable entertainment, we shall be en-r
Dictionary Entry
To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
In a Sentence
“I am obliged to report to the police station every week.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. obligeoblige noblesseoblige much
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Poetry examples for “oblige”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The Conning Tower of the New York World for Noblesse
Oblige by Jessie Redmond Fauset
Read full poem →Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now,
When passion is decayed?
Read full poem →Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now
When passion is decay'd?
Read full poem →spared neither kind of union; and accordingly his opponents exclaimed,
"That he lampooned the court, to oblige his friends in the city, and
ridiculed the city, to secure a promising lord at court; exposed the
Read full poem →Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now,
When passion is decayed?
Read full poem →Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now
When passion is decay'd?
Read full poem →But please transmit th’ enclosed letter,—Igo, and ago,
Which will oblige your humble debtor.—Iram, coram, dago.
Read full poem →there--and a dirty brown book filled with unintelligible dots and
marks. Punch was always anxious to oblige everybody. He, therefore,
welded the story of the Creation on to what he could recollect of his