disobli ge

t. [Fr. désobliger: des = Lat. dis away, apart, and obliger =to oblige (q. v.); Ital. disobligare.] *1. To set free or release from an important duty or obligation. "He hath a very great obligation to do that and more, and he can noways be disobliged but by the care of his natural relations." -Jeremy Taylor: Measure and Offices of Friendship. *2. To deprive of a privilege. "He did not think that the Act of Uniformity could disoblige them [the Nonconformists] from the exercise of their office."- Baxter : Funeral Sermon on Bates. 3. To offend a person by doing any act which is contrary to his expre ed wishes; or by omitting to do any act which is according to his wishes; to be unaccommodating to; to give offense to. "Such as had disobliged the poet, or were in disgrace with August us."-Dryden: Virgil (Dedic.). dis-o-bliged, pa . par . or a . [DISOBLIGE.] *dis-o-bli ge-měnt, s . [Eng. disoblige ; -ment.] 1. The act of disobliging; disobligation. 2. The act of freeing from an obligation; the state of being released from an obligation. "If I make a voluntary covenant as with a man to do him good, and he prove afterward a monster to me, I should conceive a disobligement ."- Milton : Tenure of Kings .