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[Eng. object, s.; -le .] With. out an object or purpose; aimle , purposele . "Objectle as those strange scrawlings on the bare mountain side."- Brit. Quart. Review, lvii. 411. IMG:content-0189.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0190.png:[blocks in formation] "The apostle feares none of these currish oblatrations ." Bp . Hall: Sermon preached to the Lords. *ob-lěc-tāte, v . t. [Lat. oblectatus, pa. par. of oblecto to please.] To please, to delight, to re- joice. ob'-li-gāte, v. t . & i . [Lat. obligatus , pa. par. of obligo =to bind down: ob- =down, and ligo =to bind.] A. Trans.: To bind down; to place under an obligation; to oblige or constrain morally or legally. "That's your true plan-to obligate The present ministers of state." IMG:content-0191.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0192.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0193.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord . Lang .: One who obliges. 2. Law : The same as OBLIGOR (q. v.). o-blig-ing, pr . par ., a., & 8. [OBLIGE.] "To all obliging , yet reserv'd to all." Walsh: Pastorals , ecl. 4. "[He] then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will or Bubo makes." obligingne