OBLI'GING, participle present tense 1. Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining. 2. Doing a favor to. No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of obliging OBLI'GING, adjective Having the disposition to do favors, or actually conferring them; as an obliging man; a man of an obliging disposition; hence, civil; complaisant; kind. Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them.
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