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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obligatory \Ob"li*ga*to*ry\, adjective [L. obligatorius: cf. F. obligatoire.] Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.
As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. --Jer. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
obligatory
adjective
1: morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" [ant: {optional}]
2: required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "obligatory": absolute, binding, choiceless, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, entailed, essential, exigent, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, incumbent, indispensable, inevitable, involuntary, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, necessitous, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, required, requisite, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice
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