Abligate vs Obligate - What's the difference?
abligate | obligate |
(obsolete) To tie up so as to hinder from.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
(transitive, North America, Scottish) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
(biology) Able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.
Absolutely indispensable; essential.
As verbs the difference between abligate and obligate
is that abligate is to tie up so as to hinder from while obligate is to bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.As an adjective obligate is
able to exist or survive only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role.abligate
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*obligate
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(wikipedia obligate)Verb
(obligat)Usage notes
In non-legal usage, almost exclusively used in the passive, in form “obligated' to X” where ‘X’ is a verb infinitive or noun phrase, as in “'''obligated to pay”. Further, it is now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish,''Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage,'' p. 675 having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).''The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1996)Synonyms
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* obligation * obligatoryReferences
Adjective
(en adjective)- an obligate''' parasite; an '''obligate anaerobe.
