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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OB'LIGATING, ppr. Bound by covenant, contract, promise or bond.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Obligate Ob"li*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obligated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obligating.] [L. obligatus, p. p. of obligare. See Oblige.] 1. To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive. ``Obligated by a sense of duty.'' --Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. --Churchill. 2. To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. --Landor.