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obligatory, a.|əˈblɪ-, ˈɒblɪgətərɪ|
[ad. late L. obligātōri-us, f. ppl. stem of obligāre to oblige: see -ory.]
1. Imposing obligation, binding in law or on the conscience; of the nature of an obligation; that must be done or practised. Const. on, upon († to, † of).
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iii. i. 140 Also it is a thynge obligatorye. a1626Bacon (J.), Whether it be not obligatory to Christian princes. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. i. §14 This his confirmation of King Edward's Laws was..but a personal act..and no whit obligatory of his posterity. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 132 Many things enacted in the Old Testament..which are not now..obligatory on us Christians. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 10 They were not obligatory to other nations. 1795Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 185 There are situations..in which, therefore, these duties are obligatory. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 478 The obligatory and containing power of the good is as nothing. 1888Times (weekly ed.) 6 Apr. 16/4 A Royal decree..making it obligatory on managers of theatres in Madrid to light those buildings by electricity.
2. Creating or constituting an obligation; esp. in writing (bill, etc.) obligatory = obligation 2.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S) 182 Suppos the Capitane, wald obliss him be his lettres obligatoris. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. clxii, As the strengthe of the letter oblygatorye wytnessyd. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 246 A sufficient instrument obligatorie..for the..contentacion of the same money. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 108 In all obligatory bargaines and pledges. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isls 200 They commonly deliver obligatory acts to their Masters,..by which writings they oblige themselves to serve them..three years. 1691Boyle Will Wks. 1772 I. Life 160 Whereas my servant John Warr is indebted unto me in the sum of 50l. by bond or bill obligatory. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 23/2, I never heard of his putting his seal to obligatory papers, on which money was to be received. 1892Daily News 30 July 5/3 The Judge decided that the fact that the document was not ‘under seal’, removed it from the legal definition of a ‘writing obligatory’.
3. Biol. = obligate ppl. a. 2.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 513 Obligatory aerobes, which must be supplied with oxygen. 1898Ibid. V. 166 If this observation should be confirmed, the tubercle bacillus could no longer be considered an obligatory parasite.
Hence obligatorily adv., in an obligatory manner, so as to be obligatory; obligatoriness, the quality or fact of being obligatory.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 230 Being bound obligatorilie, both for himselfe and his successors. 1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 28 The obligatorinesse of the Oaths and Covenant. 1755Johnson, Indissolubly..2 For ever obligatorily. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 419 The obligatoriness of circumcision had at that time been less seriously impugned. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage 346/2 Vari-coloured and variegated are, the first obligatorily, the second preferably, to be used of or in reference to colour. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. iii. 163 Postnominal modifiers can be shifted out beyond the noun obligatorily. 1975T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipel. II. iii. i. 15 Camps for forced labor were obligatorily created. |