Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining.

Doing a favor to. No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of obliging.

Having the disposition to do favors, or actually conferring them; as an obliging man; a man of an obliging disposition; hence, civil; complaisant; kind. Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them.