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Definition of Obliges
1. oblige [v] - See also: oblige
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliges
Literary usage of Obliges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"THE gentleman who obliges the world in general, and me in particular, with his
thoughts upon education, has just sent me the following letter: ' 1 take the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... which rests anything but lightly on the shoulders of the general staff in war,
and which obliges it to be devoted to an untiring energy. ..."
3. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"He enters Franconia, and obliges the imperial army to retire— $ XXVII. King of
Prussia vindicates his conduct with respect to his prisoners—§ XXVIII. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"first obliges every Catholic to accept it sub mortali; he next takes off this
obligation ; he finally re-imposes it. Take, finally, the Vatican definition. ..."
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