Bible Dictionaries
Oblige

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.

(2):

(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

(3):

(v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.