Definition of Oblige

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Oblige

To attach, as by a bond.

To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.

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Oblige Quotations

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Robert Welch

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
John Foxe

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
Henry Knox

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Richard Steele

Oblige Translations

oblige in French is obligent, obligeons, obligez
oblige in German is verpflichten
oblige in Italian is obbligare, obbligare
oblige in Latin is adstringo, commodo
oblige in Spanish is constre ir, vincular, obligar, compeler

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