Middle English Dictionary Entry
obligā̆tōrī(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | obligā̆tōrī(e adj. Also (error) obligarie. Pl. obligatories. |
| Etymology | OF obligatoire & L obligātōrius. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Putting oneself under obligation to someone; lettre ~, a letter or document expressing one's obligation, promise, pledge, etc.; (b) law binding someone to the payment of a sum of money; escript (cedule, chartre, dede, lettre, writinge) ~, a written document recording such an obligation.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)163 : Þe lettre obligarie þat Kyng Iohn made to þe court of Rome..byndeþ vs, and al þat comen after vs..to þe Pope.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)181 : Þe Kyng sent by his lettre to Lewelyn..þat he shulde come to parlement for his londes and for his holdyng in Walys, as þe strengþ of þe lettre obligatorie witnessede.
b
- (1430) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.95 : John Shardelow and Thomas Hoo be bounden by here escript obligatorie to the seid Thomas Chaucer yn x m li. to be paied at the fest of cristemasse next comyng.
- (a1440) *Proc.Chanc.PRO ser.C 1 file 9no.424 : The seid Robert by his dede oblygatorye was bounde to the seid William and Thomas bi xl li.
- (a1455) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xlix : The said Jane shuld fynde..men of sufficient lyvelode..to be bounde to the said John by their escriptes obligatories in cc li.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.193/31 : I wille yff that oony writyng obligatorie, of þoo ij marke makyng mencion, in oony tyme maye bee ffounde, þat hit be broȝght fforth and hit to be i-had for nowȝght.
- (1474) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.1928 : Please you to calle to your remembraunce your schedule obligatory of your own hand subscribed, by you and Dan. Raynold Goldstone..by the which ye owe me for a sauf condute, that I purchassed for you and the said Goldstone of the Constable of Fraunce, the somme of xxxvij scutes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)266/3 : The seid women were I-bounde by their lettres obligatories for londes and rentis the which they had of hym.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)487 head. : A charter obligatory bitwene Iohn Weston and Isowde his wyf and Odo, Chapeleyn of Godestowe, for..yerely rent.