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To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

To tie up so as to hinder from. [Obs.]

To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

To bind up; to bandage.

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.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

In a profligate manner.

The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

cultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

rity; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

In a profligate manner.

courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.

traint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

ormally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; -- opposed to obligate.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. Pope.

Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.

To ligate; to tie.

A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne*ro"ni*an, a.