I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or
human obligement, that you lay upon me.
Milton.
O*bli"ger (?), n. One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
O*bli"ging, a. 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.
Ob`li*gor" (?), n. The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to
another. Blackstone.
Ob`li*qua"tion (?), n. [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.