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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oblige.

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Examples

  • Vertical once again obliges the audience for such comics with the first volume of Black Jack, featuring hyperactive medical madness.

    24 « September « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2008

  • Vertical once again obliges the audience for such comics with the first volume of Black Jack, featuring hyperactive medical madness.

    Upcoming 9/24/2008 2008

  • Vertical once again obliges the audience for such comics with the first volume of Black Jack, featuring hyperactive medical madness.

    September « 2008 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2008

  • The Latin custom of repeating the same word obliges the author, having once said _alia_, to use _alii_, which, strictly speaking, should be _alteri_, as he is speaking of only two persons.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • I do not imagine that a recall obliges you to return home; whether you could get your appointments continued is very different.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • If our position in society is such as obliges us to receive such men, we all know the moral uses of ice, and under the guise of the most frigid politeness we can make them feel their absolute exclusion from the inner circle of our friends and intimates.

    The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

  • We have not boldness to enter into the holiest, in all acts of devotion, by the blood of Jesus, yet such as obliges us to a holy reverence and a humble sense of our distance.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • “The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Some environmentalists argue that the Japanese action contravenes international agreements, such as the United Nations Law of the Sea, which obliges member countries to make every possible effort to prevent and minimize seawater contamination.

    Release of Irradiated Water Is Stopped Mitsuru Obe 2011

  • Courtesy obliges them to respect my decision to go to Jerusalem, as I would theirs to stay away.

    Letters: Israel critics should respect my decision 2011

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