OBLI'GING, ppr. 1. Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining.2. Doing a favor to.No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of obliging.OBLI'GING, a. Having the disposition to do favors, or actually conferring them; as an obliging man; a man of an obliging disposition; hence, civil; complaisant; kind. Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them.
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