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Obligate   Listen
verb
Obligate  v. t.  (past & past part. obligated; pres. part. obligating)  
1.
To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. "Obligated by a sense of duty." "That's your true plan to obligate The present ministers of state."
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."






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"Obligate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sir Louis, "there's no objection; only a stipulation: We wouldn't let an Englishman go, because of the risk—not to him, but to us. Any fool has a right to get killed, but not to obligate his government. All the missionaries were called in from those outlying districts long ago. We don't want to be held liable for damages for failure to protect. Such things have happened. You see, the idea is, we assume no responsibility for what takes place beyond the Jordan and the Dead Sea. Now, ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy



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