obligate
verbEtymology
Partly inherited from Middle English obligat(e) (“bound (by any obligation), obliged”), partly directly borrowed from Latin obligātus, see Etymology 1, -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
Definitions
To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
To cause to be grateful or indebted
To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
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Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.
- [A]nalysis of the chemical composition of their bones reveals that they were obligate carnivores.
Indispensable
Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
- In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.
- In some languages such signaling is optional, whereas in others it is obligate.
- Aquatic sites constitute obligate habitat for some species, and are critical breeding habitat for species with complex life cycles involving aquatic egg or larval development.
Bound by oath, law or duty.
- The Law sayith, Mack a mendis for thy synne. The Father of Heaven is wraith wyth thee. Quhair is thy rychteousnes, goodnes, and satisfactioun ? Thou art bound and obligat unto me, [to] the devill, and [to] hell.
An obligate organism.
The neighborhood
Derived
obligatee, obligation, obligator, obligatory, nonobligate, obligate carrier, obligately
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA