To delight; to please greatly.

The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.

Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

under a moral obligation to someone.

The act of obligating.

relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation; as, obligational authority.

See Obbligato.

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

The quality or state of being obligatory.

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.

To attach, as by a bond.

The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.

Obligation.

One who, or that which, obliges.

Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.

The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes.

To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.

Quality or state of being oblique.

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

Indistinct; slurred over.

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.

making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating mists.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

Tending or serving to obliterate.

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

total forgetfulness.

A disputer; a gainsayer.

A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

The medulla oblongata.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

Somewhat oblong.

In an oblong form.

State or quality of being oblong.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Containing obloquy; reproachful

Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

A struggle against; resistance; opposition.

A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.

To cloud; to obscure.

One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

A performer on the oboe.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished.

A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.

See Obelize.

A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.

Obversely omegoid.

Obovate.

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth.

To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one.

A rent. A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.

One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.

The system or the principles of the obscurants.

Same as Obscurant.

The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.

Obscurity.

In an obscure manner.

The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration.

Obscurity.

One who, or that which, obscures.

The quality or state of being obscure.

To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.

The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with /By./

Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory.

Obedient; submissive; obsequious.

Obsequiousness.

See Obsequy.

Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.

In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.

The quality or state of being obsequious.

The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.

Capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable.

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.

Observance.

A thing to be observed.

One who observes forms and rules.

One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

In an observant manner.

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

Of or pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.

Observing; watchful.

One who observes or takes notice.

A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.

To take notice; to give attention to what one sees or hears; to attend.

perceived with the eyes and sometimes with other senses; as, no explanation for the observed phenomena.

One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.

The office or work of an observer.

Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; observant{1}; as, an observing person; an observing mind.

To be excessively or persistently preoccupied with something; -- usually used with on or over; as, to obsess over an imagined insult.

having or showing excessive or compulsive concern; -- used with with.

The act of besieging.

Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea.

A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

Of or pertaining to a siege.

A sealing up.

To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.

To seal; to ratify.

The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.

Ratifying; confirming by sealing.

To become obsolescent.

The state of becoming obsolete.

Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.

To become obsolete; to go out of use.

In an obsolete manner.

The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.

A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.

Opposition; impediment; obstruction.

Of or pertaining to childbirth, midwifery, or the period around the time of the birth of children; as, the obstetric art.

To assist as a midwife.

The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.