obligate

Etymology
Borrowed from, past participle of. , taken through French.

Verb

 * 1)  To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
 * 2)  To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
 * 3)  To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
 * 1)  To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.

Usage notes
In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “obligated to pay”. Further, it is now in standard use only in American English and some dialects such as Scottish, having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).

Synonyms

 * See also: force: Synonyms

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Latin: obligō,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Portuguese:

Adjective

 * 1)  Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc..
 * 2) Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
 * In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.
 * In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:optional § Synonyms

Antonyms

 * See Thesaurus:optional § Antonyms

Translations

 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: obligat, tvungen, uten valgmulighet
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: obligaatti,
 * Portuguese: ,