obligé, n.m., indentures (of apprenticeship).

obligé, n.m., -e, n.f., (jur.) obligor, debtor.

obligé, -e, part., obliged, compelled, bound; necessary, usual. Je suis — de sortir; I am obliged to go out.

obligeamment (-ja-mān), adv., obligingly.

obligeance (-jans), n.f., kindness, obligingness.

obligeant, -e, adj., obliging, kind.

obliger, v.a., to oblige, to bind; to compel, to induce; to gratify. Votre devoir vous y oblige; you are bound in duty to do it. — un apprenti; to bind an apprentice.

s’obliger, v.r., to bind one’s self.

obliger, v.n., to impose obligations; to oblige, to favor.

oblique, adj., oblique, slanting; (fig.) indirect, unfair. Pont —; oblique-bridge, skew-bridge.