单词 | obligational |
释义 | obligationaladj. Of the nature of an obligation; relating to obligation. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [adjective] officiala1450 jural18.. obligational1822 1822 J. Galt Provost xvii. 132 Two things I saw it was obligational on me to urge forward. 1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid I. 294 Whether the axiom, when this latter obligational form is given to it, ceases to be scientific, is perhaps no more than a verbal question. 1951 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 45 343 According to the President's budget message last January, at $10.7 billion of new obligational authority and over $7 billion in actual expenditures. 1986 D. Howell Blind Victory v. 38 The obligational element in Japanese society. 1997 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 103 15 The normative view focuses on the moral and obligational bases of legitimacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1822 |
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