obligatum (obligatum)

[ oblige (ō-blij'; formerly also ō-blēj', after the F.), v. t.; pret. and pp. obliged, ppr. obliging. [ Lord, to thy seruice I obli h me, with all myn herte holy. York Plays, p. 116. met by the Pope and saluted in this man IMG:content-1570.png:[blocks in formation] Ther 's not an art but 'tis an obligee . Nuptialls of Peleus and Thetis (1654). ( Nares .) Ireland, the obligee , might have said, "What security have I for receiving the balance due to me after you are paid?" Gladstone, Nineteenth Century, XXI. 170. obligement (ō-blīj'ment), n. [OF. oblige ment, I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement , that you lay upon me. Milton , Education. 2. A favor conferred. Let this fair prince but one minute stay, A look from her will your obligements pay. Dryden, Indian Emperor, i. 2. obliger (ō-bli'jer), n. One who obliges. It is the natural property of the same heart, to be a gen- tle interpreter, which is so noble an obliger . Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, р. 453. obliging (ō-bli'jing), p . a . Having a disposition to oblige or confer favors; ready to do a good turn or to be of service: as, an obliging neigh- bor; hence, characteristic of one who is ready to do a favor; accommodating; kind; com- plaisant: as, an obliging disposition. She. affected this obliging carriage to her inferiors. Goldsmith, Hist. England, xxxiv. He is an obliging man, and I knew he would let me have J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 210. them without asking what I wanted them for. =Syn. Friendly. See polite. obligingly (o-bli'jing-li), adv. In an obliging manner; with ready compliance and a desire to serve or be of service; with courteous readine ; kindly; complaisantly: as, he very obli gingly showed us over his establishment. He had an Antick Busto of Zenobia in Marble, with a thick Radiated Crown; of which he very obligingly gave me a Copy. Lister , Journey to Paris, p. 49. obligingne (ō-bli'jing-nes), n. 1. Binding To the poore and miserable her lo was irreparable, for there was no degree but had some obligation to her memorie. Evelyn , Diary, Sept. 9, 1678. 5. In law: (a) A bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed, for payment of money, performance of covenants, or the like: sometimes styled a writing obligatory. By some modern English jurists the word is used as equiva lent to legal duty generally. He can make obligations , and write court-hand. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2. 101. ( b ) In Rom. law, the juridical relation between two or more persons in virtue of which one can compel the other to do or not to do a certain act which has a monetary value, or can at least be measured by a monetary standard. It might arise out of delict as well as out of contract. The word is used as well to designate the right as the corresponding duty. 6. In medieval schools, a rule of disputation by which the opponent was bound to admit any premise, not involving a contradiction, begging of the question, or other fallacy, which the respondent might propose. Disputation, as a game for teaching logic, was a principal part of the scholastic exercises, and perhaps may still be so in some countries. A master presided, and after a sufficient time decided in favor of one of the disputants, who was then obliged to give his adversary a great thwack with a wood en instrument. Modern writers sometimes speak of any rule of scholastic disputation as an obligation. - Acce ory, conditional, conventional, correal, etc., obligations. See the adjectives.- Days of obligation ( eccles.), days on which every one is expected to abstain from secular occupations and to attend divine service. Natural, obediential, etc., obligations. See the adjectives. Of obligation, obligatory: said especially of an observance commanded by the church: as, it is of obligation to communicate at Easter. There is properly only one Moslem pilgrimage of obliga tion, that to Mecca, which still often draws an annual contirgent of from 70,000 to 80,000 pilgrims. Encyc. Brit ., ΧΙΧ. 93. it to the Sea, oblige it unto thee. Sandys, Travailes, p. 2. Admit he prom is'd love, Oblig'd himself by oath to her you plead for. Shirley , Love in a Maze, iii. 3. Privateers are not obliged to any Ship, but free to go ashore where they please, or to go into any other Ship that will entertain them, only paying for their Provision. Dampier , Voyages, I. 31. 2. To bind, constrain, or compel by any physical, moral, or legal force or influence; place under obligation or nece ity (especially moral nece ity) of doing some particular thing or of pursuing some particular course. I wol to yow oblige me to deye. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 1414. O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new-made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited IMG:content-1571.png:[blocks in formation] Christ coming, as the substance typified by those legal institutions, did consequently set a period to the obliging . ne of those institutions. Hammond, Works, I. 232. 2. The quality of being obliging; civility; complaisance; disposition to exercise kindne . His behaviour. was with such condescension and obligingne to the meanest of his clergy as to know and be known to them. I. Walton , Lives (Bp. Sanders on), p. 364. obligistic (ob-li-jis'tik), a. [ Thomas Prince, who was one of the contractors for the trade, was not one of the obligors to the adventures. Appendix to New England's Memorial , p. 405. obligulate (ob-lig'ū-lāt), a. [ Wherein according to common anatomy the right and transverse fibres are decu ated by the oblique fibres; and so must frame a reticulate and quincuncial figure by their Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, iii. The change made by the obliquation of the eyes is least in colours of the densest than in thin substances. Newton , Opticks, ii. 1. 19. 3. To lay under obligation of gratitude, etc., obliquations. by some act of courtesy or kindne ; hence, to gratify; serve; do a service to or confer a favor upon; be of service to; do a kindne or good turn to: as, kindly oblige me by shutting the door; in the pa ive, to be indebted. They are able to oblige the Prince of their Country by lending him money. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 55. 2. Deviation from moral rectitude. [Rare in both senses.] oblique (ob-lēk' or ob-lik'), a. and n. [F. ob- lique Sp. oblicuo =Pg. It. obliquo , L.obliquus , slanting, awry, oblique, sidelong, ob , before, near, + (LL.) liquis (scarcely used), slanting, I would sustain alone The worst, and not persuade thee; rather die Deserted than oblige thee with a fact Pernicious to thy peace. Milton , P. L., ix. 980. bent; cf. Ru . luka , a bend, Lith. leukti , bend.] oblique I. a. 1. Of lines or planes, making with a given line, surface, or direction an angle that is le than 90°; neither perpendicular nor parallel; of angles, either acute or obtuse, not right; in general, not direct; aslant; slanting. See cuts under angles. Upon others we can look but in oblique lines; only upon ourselves in direct. Donne , Sermons, v. With tract oblique At first, as one who sought acce , but fear'd To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. Milton , P. L., ix. 510. 2. Indirect, in a figurative sense: as, an ob lique reproach or taunt. The following pa age is an oblique panegyric on the Union. Goldsmith , Criticisms. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak; for no man ever loved children more, nor a brother le . Baker , Hen. I., an. 1135. all inferiors were spoken to in the third person singular, as "er"; that is, an oblique form, by which the inferior was referred to as though not present, served to disconnect him from the speaker. By Germans in old times. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 397. 3. Questionable from a moral point of view; not upright or morally direct; evil. IMG:content-1572.png:[blocks in formation] 4060 oblique (ob-lēk' or ob-lik'), v. i.; pret. and pp. obliqued, ppr. obliquing. [= F. obliquer, march obliquely, = Sp. oblicuar = Pg. obliquar = It. obliquare, direct or drive obliquely, Projecting his person toward it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. Scott , Waverley, xi. 2. To advance slantingly or obliquely; specifically ( mil it.), to advance obliquely by making a half-face to the right or left and marching in the new direction. The fox obliqued towards us, and entered a field of which our position commanded a full view. Georgia Scenes, p. 176. oblique-angled (ob-lēk'ang"gld), a. Having oblique angles: as, an oblique - angled triangle. obliquedt, p . a. Oblique. Each of you, That vertue have or this or that to make, Is checkt and changed from his nature trew, By others opposition or obliquèd view. Spenser, F. Q., VII. viị. 54. IMG:content-1573.png:[blocks in formation] Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 77. It tends to the utter di olving of those oblique suspi cions which have any aspect on his Maties subjects, whether spectators or others. Evelyn, Encounter between the French and Spanish [Amba adors. 4. In bot., unequal-sided. Oblique angle. See def. 1.-Oblique arch, in arch. See arch. Oblique ascensiont. ascension. - Oblique battery. tery.-Oblique bridge, a skew bridge. - Oblique case, in gram., any case except the nominative. - Oblique circle, in spherical projections, a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane. Oblique cone. See cone. - Oblique cylinder, a cylinder whose axis is oblique to the plane of its base. - Oblique descension. See de scension, 4.- Oblique extinction. See extinction. -Oblique fire, helicoid, etc. See the nouns. - Oblique hyperbola, one whose asymptotes are not at right angles to one another. - Oblique inguinal hernia. See hernia. Oblique leaf, in bot., a leaf in which the cellular ti ue is not symmetrically developed on each side of the midrib, as in the elm; an in equilateral leaf. - Oblique ligament, in an at., a small round ligament running from the tubercle of the ulna at the base of the coronoid proce to the radius a little below the bicipital tuberosity. Also called round ligament. - Oblique line of the clavicle, the trapezoid line for the trapezoid ligament. - Oblique line of the fibula, the postero-internal border. - Oblique line of the lower jaw, two ridges, the external and the internal, the former running from the mental prominence upward and backward to the anterior margin of the ramus, and the latter, or mylohyoid ridge, running from below the genial tubercles upward and backward to the ramus, and affording attachment to the mylohyoid muscle. Oblique line of the radius, a line running downward and outward from the tuberosity to form the anterior border of the bone. Oblique line of the thyroid cartilage, an indistinct ridge on the wing, for attachment of the sternohyoid and thyrohyoid muscles. - Oblique line of the tibia, the popliteal line. - Oblique line of the ulna, a line on the anterior distal surface, limiting attachment of the pronator quadratus. - Oblique motion, in music. See motion, 14.-Oblique muscles of the abdomen, of the eye, of the neck. See phrases under obliquus.-Oblique narration or speech (tr. of L. oratio obliqua ), in gram., indirect narration; a construction in which the original speaker's words are repeated in full or in substance, but with such a change of person and tense as conforms them to the circumstances of the person reporting. Thus, in English, he said he had been learning geometry, for he said "I have been learning geometry. -Oblique perspective. Same as angular perspective (which see, under angular ). Oblique pianoforte, an upright pianoforte in which the strings run diagonally instead of vertically. As now made, most uprights are oblique. Oblique plane, in dialing, a plane which declines from the zenith or inclines toward the horizon.Oblique proce es of the vertebræ, the articular pro rhythm. See rhythm. hththe physes obliquide of the blique um, a prominence on the palmar surface of the trapezium to which is attached the anterior annular ligament. - Oblique ridge of the ulna, a ridge running from the hinder end of the small sigmoid cavity to the posterior border.Oblique sailing ( naut.), the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.- Oblique speech. See oblique narration. -Oblique sphere, in astron, and geog., the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or its position relative to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator. - Oblique system of coördinates. See coordinate. Oblique vein of the heart, a small vein from the vestigial fold of pericar dium, opening into the coronary sinus without a valve: a remnant of the left superior fetal cava. II. n. In an at ., an oblique muscle: as, the external oblique of the abdomen. See obliquus. The state or quality of being oblique. obliqui, n. Plural of obliquus. obliquity (ob-lik'wi-ti), n.; pl. obliquities (-tiz). [ lique. (a) A relative position in which two planes, a straight line and a plane, or two straight lines in a plane cut at an angle not a right angle; also, the magnitude of this angle. IMG:content-1574.png:[blocks in formation] Not once touching the inward bed of corruption, and that hectick disposition to evill, the sourse of all vice, and obliquity against the rule of Law. Milton , Church-Government, ii. 3. To disobey or oppose His will in anything imports a moral obliquity . He who seeks a mansion in the sky Must watch his purpose with a steadfast eye; That prize belongs to none but the sincere; The least obliquity is fatal here. South , Cowper, Progre of Error, 1. 579. I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. Lamb , All Fool's Day. Obliquity of the ecliptic, the angle between the plane of the earth's orbit and that of the earth's equator. As affected by nutation, it is called the apparent obliquity; but when corrected for this effect, it is called the mean obliquity. The mean obliquity at the beginning of 1870 was 23° 27' 22", and it diminishes, owing to the attractions of the other planets, at the rate of 47" per century. obliquus (ob-li'kwus), n.; pl. obliqui (-kwi). [NL., sc. musculus, muscle: see oblique.] In an at., a muscle the direction of whose fibers is oblique to the long axis of the body, or to the long axis of the part acted upon. - Obliquus abdominis extern us, the great external oblique muscle of the abdomen, whose fibers proceed from above downward and forward. See third cut under muscle. - Obliquus abdominis intern us, the great internal oblique muscle of the abdomen, exterior to the transversal is, whose fibers proceed from below upward and forward. Obliquus ascendens, the in ternal oblique muscle of the abdomen. - Obliquus auris, a few muscular fibers situated upon the concha of the ear. - Obliquus capitis inferior, a muscle pa ing from the spinous proce of the axis to the transverse proce of the atlas. Obliquus capitis superior, a muscle pa ing from the transverse proce of the atlas to the occipital bone. Obliquus descend ens, the external oblique muscle of the abdomen. - Obliquus inferior of the eye, a muscle situated cro wise upon the under surface of the eyeball, which it rotates upon its axis from within upward and outward. Obliquus superior of the eye, the trochlear muscle, antagonizing the obliquus inferior: remarkable for turning at a right angle or le as its central tendon pa es through a pulley (in Mammal i a ). See cuts under eyel, eyeball, and rectus.