OBLECTATE
OBLEC'TATE, verb transitive [Latin oblecto.] To delight; to please highly. [Not used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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OBLECTATION
OBLECTA'TION, noun The act of pleasing highly; delight.
OBLIGATE
OB'LIGATE, verb transitive [Latin obligo; ob and ligo, to bind.]To bind, as one's self, in a moral and legal sense; to impose on, as a duty which the law or good faith may enfor...
OBLIGATED
OB'LIGATED, participle passive Bound by contract or promise.
OBLIGATING
OB'LIGATING, participle present tense Bound by covenant, contract, promise or bond.
OBLIGATION
OBLIGA'TION, noun [Latin obligatio.]1. The binding power of a vow, promise, oath or contract, or of law, civil, political or moral, independent of a promise; that which constitu...
OBLIGATO
OBLIGATO. [See Obbligato.]
OBLIGATORY
OB'LIGATORY, adjective Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; followed by on; to is obsolete.As long as law is obligatory...
OBLIGE
OBLI'GE, verb transitive pronounced as written, not oblege. [Latin obligo; ob and ligo, to bind.]1. To constrain by necessity; to compel by physical force. an admiral may be obl...
OBLIGED
OBLI'GED, participle passive Bound in duty or in law; compelled; constrained; favored; indebted.
OBLIGEE
OBLIGEE', noun The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.
OBLIGEMENT
OBLI'GEMENT, noun Obligation. [Little used.]
OBLIGER
OBLI'GER, noun One that obliges.
OBLIGING
OBLI'GING, participle present tense1. Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining.2. Doing a favor to.No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of o...
OBLIGINGLY
OBLI'GINGLY, adverb With civility; kindly; complaisantly.
OBLIGINGNESS
OBLI'GINGNESS, noun1. Obligation. [Little used.]2. Civility; complaisance; disposition to exercise kindness.
OBLIGOR
OBLIGOR', noun The person who binds himself or gives his bond to another.
OBLIKE
OBLI'KE, adjective obli'ke. [Latin obliquus;.]1. Deviating from a right line; not direct; not perpendicular; not parallel; aslant.It has a direction oblique to that of the forme...
OBLIQUATION
OBLIQUA'TION, noun [Latin obliquo, from obliquus, oblique.]1. Declination from a strait line or course; a turning to one side; as the obliquation of the eyes.2. Deviation from m...
OBLIQUE
OBLI'QUE,OBLI'QUELY, adverb1. In a line deviating from a right line; not directly; not perpendicularly.Declining from the noon of day, the sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.2...
OBLIQUENESS
OBLI'QUENESS, noun Obliquity.
OBLIQUITY
OBLIQ'UITY, noun [Latin obliquitas.]1. Deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; as the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.2. Deviation ...
OBLITERATE
OBLIT'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin oblitero; ob and litera, letter.]1. To efface; to erase or blot out any thing written; or to efface any thing engraved. A writing may be obli...
OBLITERATED
OBLIT'ERATED, participle passive Effaced; erased; worn out; destroyed.
OBLITERATING
OBLIT'ERATING, participle present tense Effacing; wearing out; destroying.
OBLITERATION
OBLITERA'TION, noun The act of effacing; effacement; a blotting out or wearing out; extinction.
OBLIVION
OBLIV'ION, noun [Latin oblivio.]1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance.Among our crimes oblivion may be set.2. A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment. An act o...