† ligatoryadj.
Obsolete.
(a) Serving to bind or tie up. (b) That has binding force, obligatory.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [adjective]
fastOE
faithfula1500
obligatory1502
obligatoriousa1555
astrictivea1575
bounded1586
debt-bound1588
obliged1594
obligative1596
Stygian1608
obligator1609
binding1611
imperative1621
obligant1624
ligatory1625
obliging1638
obstrictive1642
boundant1649
self-binding1685
hard1935
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > [adjective] > binding > serving to bind
ligatory1625
1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 4 It is cleere amongst..Professors of Cases of Conscience, That the errour..which..is called an erronious Conscience, is ligatorie.
1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iiii. sig. H3 Dough. Now do I thinke upon the codpeece point the young jade gave him at the wedding... Arth. A ligatory point. Bant. Alas poore Lawrence.
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