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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.

Releasing from obligation. "Disobligatory power." Charles I.

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.

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

Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.

Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak.

ty, but the better opinion is that it is part of the common law of the land, and hence is obligatory as law.

Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

oral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. Hallam.

eople and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon. All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians. Sprat.

Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant. To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. Shak.

toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.

To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit. Art thou loosed from a wife seek not a wife. 1 Cor. vii. 27. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Matt. xvi. 19.

Customs; habits; esp., customs conformity to which is more or less obligatory; customary law.

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