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Indebted :: Indebted (a.) Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement..

Engagement :: Engagement (n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office..

Indebt :: Indebt (v. t.) To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

Acquittal :: Acquittal (n.) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

Sufficient :: Sufficient (a.) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..

Duty :: Duty (n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory..

Releasement :: Releasement (n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation..

Acknowledge :: Acknowledge (v. t.) To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter..

Salvor :: Salvor (n.) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so..

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor..

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive..

Parental :: Parental (a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations..

Obliging :: Obliging (a.) Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind..

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon..

Good :: Good (superl.) Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit..

Disobligatory :: Disobligatory (a.) Releasing from obligation.

Exonerator :: Exonerator (n.) One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

Disobligation :: Disobligation (n.) A disobliging act; an offense.

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