Definitions
Required by rule, duty, or expectation.
Word origin
From Middle English obligatorie, from Latin obligatōrius.
Used in a sentence
“an obligatory promise”
“[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.”
“[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Expected by duty”10 letters
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