facultative vs obligate

facultative

adj
  • That grants permission or power to do something. 

  • Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way. 

  • Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty. 

  • Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective. 

  • At which a given function is positive. 

obligate

adj
  • Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.. 

  • Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked. 

verb
  • To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie. 

  • To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation. 

  • To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige. 

How often have the words facultative and obligate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )