Defn: Obligation. [R.] I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
OBLIGER
O*bli"ger, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
OBLIGING
O*bli"ging, a.
Defn: Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison.
Syn. — Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, — Obliging, Kind, Complaisant. One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. — O*bli"ging*ly. adv. — O*bli"ging*ness, n.
OBLIGOR
Ob`li*gor", n.
Defn: The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.
Blackstone.
OBLIQUATION Ob`li*qua"tion, n. Etym: [L. obliquatio, fr. obliquare to turn obliquely. See Oblique.]
1. The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.