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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.

The act of obligating.

See Obbligato.

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation. Foxe.

The quality or state of being 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. Jer. Taylor.

The medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one. [Obs.] Bailey.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

In another manner. [Obs.] He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.

An outlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

To investigate thoroughly. [Obs.]

Thorough investigation. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.

The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott.

The posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.

bility as to the fact and the manner of its exercise. The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination. I. Taylor. An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. Macaulay.

Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege. [R.] Shak.