What is "obliges"

Usage examples of "obliges".

Is Brought to Bed of a Son and Obliges Her Mother to Make Me Amends--The Suit Against Me Is Quashed--Mdlle.

Her Lying-in and Death--A Lettre de Cachet Obliges Me to Leave Paris in the Course of Twenty-four Hours All my friends seemed delighted to see me, and I was well pleased to find myself in such good company.

As we must attend church on Sundays and holidays in a style proper to our condition, we are often compelled to go without our dinner, in order to get out of pledge the clothes which urgent need too often obliges us to part with, and which we pledge anew on the following day.

Be careful to form your judgment upon those who ask any questions from you, and if common civility obliges you to give an answer, give only an evasive one, if any other is likely to commit you.

You say that you detest the chase and that you are unhappy when politeness obliges you to go .

But though the Scriptures obliges me to remain contented, it doth not enjoin me to shut my eyes to my own merit, nor restrain me from seeing when I am injured by an unjust comparison.

I can scarce credit it myself: but the fidelity of an historian obliges me to relate what hath been confidently asserted.

I shall never forgive villany farther than my religion obliges me, and that extends not either to our bounty or our conversation.

While we admire the poetical excellence of this poem, candour obliges us to allow, that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resistance with which it is fraught, had no just cause.

She has almost deserted her old employment and in fact obliges me to employ a boy.

And if heaven obliges us to be the guests of any earthly power, we are happy to be yours.

I would obey your wish, but an urgent and important affair obliges me to leave you for the whole evening.