Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of obligate.
Adjective
(comparative more obligated, superlative most obligated)
- (North America, Scotland) committed
- (North America, Scotland) having an obligation; obliged
Usage notes
Now only in standard use in American English and some dialects such as Scottish, having disappeared from standard British English by the 20th century, being replaced by obliged (it was previously used in the 17th through 19th centuries).
