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3. Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar,Dryden. The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII.Evelyn. I shall be more obliged to you than I can express.Mrs. E. Montagu. Obligee Obligement I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me.Milton. Obliger Obliging Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.Addison. Syn. Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, Obliging, Kind, Complaisant. One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. Obligor Obliquation Oblique It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.Cheyne. The love we bear our friends . . .Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye.Wordworth. |
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