obatory.html - abbr.
Obadiah (Old Testament).

obatory.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods, he excused himself and disappeared behind the bushes./

obatory.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods, he excused himself and disappeared behind the bushes./

obatory.html - abbr.
Brit. outside broadcast.

obatory.html - prefix (also oc- before c, of- before f, op- before p) occurring mainly in words of Latin origin, meaning: 1 exposure, openness (object; obverse).
2 meeting or facing (occasion; obvious).
3 direction (oblong; offer).
4 opposition, hostility, or resistance (obstreperous; opponent; obstinate).
5 hindrance, blocking, or concealment (obese; obstacle; occult).
6 finality or completeness (obsolete; occupy).
7 (in modern technical words) inversely; in a direction or manner contrary to the usual (obconical; obovate). [L f. ob towards, against, in the way of]

obatory.html - abbr.
he or she died. [L obiit]