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Webster 1913 Edition
Obligatory
Ob′li-ga-to-ry
,Adj.
[L.
obligatorius
: cf. F. obligatoire
.] 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 soldierAs long as the law is
obligatory
, so long our obedience is due. Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Obligatory
OB'LIGATORY
,Adj.
As long as law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due.
Definition 2024
obligatory
obligatory
English
Adjective
obligatory (comparative more obligatory, superlative most obligatory)
- Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
- an obligatory promise
- Richard Baxter
- […] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
- Requiring a matter or obligation.
Antonyms
Related terms
- obligate
- obligated
- obligation
- obligational
- obligato
- obligatorily
- oblige
- obligee
- obliger
- obliging
- obligingly
- obligingness
- obligor
Translations
binding
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External links
- obligatory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913