WordNet
adj. morally binding or necessary; "it is incumbent on me to attend" [syn: incumbent on(p)]
Usage examples of "incumbent on".
In like manner, when a person disables himself, by conduct purely self-regarding, from the performance of some definite duty incumbent on him to the public, he is guilty of a social offence.
The nourishment and education of their children is a charge so incumbent on parents for their children’.
As it altogether transcended the powers of those on board to elucidate the origin of this catastrophe, it was felt to be incumbent on them at least to ascertain its extent.
R: It should be incumbent on the student to listen and not incumbent on the teacher to adjust their teaching to a students attention.
But she did feel it incumbent on her to not to be backward in attention to Lady Colebatch.
It is incumbent on us to adore the mysterious dispensations of Providence, ^57 when we discover that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul is omitted in the law of Moses it is darkly insinuated by the prophets.