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Word Meanings - BEHOLDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.

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  • OBLIGABLE
    Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
  • INDEBT
    To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. Daniel.
  • OBLIGER
    One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
  • OBLIGEMENT
    Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
  • INDEBTED
    1. Brought into debt; being under obligation; held to payment or requital; beholden. By owing, owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged. Milton. 2. Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude
  • INDEBTEDNESS
    1. The state of being indebted. 2. The sum owed; debts, collectively.
  • OBLIGATORINESS
    The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • INDEBTMENT
    Indebtedness. Bp. Hall.
  • OBLIGATO
    See OBBLIGATO
  • GRATEFUL
    1. Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays.
  • OBLIGATION
    A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things. Days of obligation. See under Day. (more info) 1. The act of obligating. 2. That
  • OBLIGATORILY
    In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation. Foxe.
  • THANKFUL
    1. Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy. Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows. Herbert. 2. Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge
  • OBLIGOR
    The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone.
  • BEHOLDEN
    Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.
  • OBLIGEE
    The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone.
  • OBLIGING
    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, --
  • OBLIGATORY
    Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due.
  • OBLIGE
    1. To attach, as by a bond. He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. Bacon. 2. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither
  • OBLIGATE
    1. To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. "Obligated by a sense of duty." Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill. 2. To bind or firmly hold to an act;
  • INGRATEFUL
    1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
  • DISOBLIGER
    One who disobliges.
  • DISOBLIGE
    1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come
  • DISOBLIGEMENT
    Release from obligation.
  • DISOBLIGATORY
    Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

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