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Webster 1913 Edition
Disoblige
Disˊo-blige′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disobliged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disobliging
.] [Pref.
dis-
+ oblige
: cf. F. désobliger
.] 1.
To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Those . . . who slight and
disoblige
their friends, shall infallibly come to know the value of them by having none when they shall most need them. South.
My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to
disoblige
. Addison.
2.
To release from obligation.
[Obs.]
Absolving and
disobliging
from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disoblige
DISOBLIGE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of another; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to injure in a slight degree; a term by which offense is tenderly expressed.My plan has given offense to some gentlemen, whom it would not be very safe to disoblige.
2.
To release from obligation. [Not used.]Definition 2024
disoblige
disoblige
English
Verb
disoblige (third-person singular simple present disobliges, present participle disobliging, simple past and past participle disobliged)
- (Britain) Not to oblige; to disappoint, to inconvenience, not to cooperate.
- Sorry to disoblige everybody; I know you were depending on me to bring a good weather forecast for our fête, but it is going to rain.
- between 1812 and 1814, Jane Austen, chapter 1, in Mansfield Park:
- But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.