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Beholdingness :: Beholdingness (n.) The state of being obliged or beholden.

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other..

Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To oblige; to confer a favor on.

Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..

Oblige :: Oblige (v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something..

Bounden :: Bounden (p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.

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

Complaisance :: Complaisance (n.) Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.

Knight Banneret :: Knight banneret () A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle..

Obligement :: Obligement (n.) Obligation.

Obliged :: Obliged (imp. & p. p.) of Oblig.

Dis- :: Dis- () A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever..

Beholden :: Beholden (p. a.) Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Answerable :: Answerable (a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages..

Obliger :: Obliger (n.) One who, or that which, obliges..

Beholding :: Beholding (a.) Obliged; beholden.

Disoblige :: Disoblige (v. t.) To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

Brennage :: Brennage (n.) A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds..

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