COMPULSE
\kəmpˈʌls], \kəmpˈʌls], \k_ə_m_p_ˈʌ_l_s]\
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To compel: to constrain: to oblige. "Some are beaten and compulsed."-Latimer. "She rends her woes, shivers them in compulsed abhorrence."-Charlotte Bronte.
By Daniel Lyons
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kom-puls', v.t. to compel.--adjs. COMPUL'SATORY, COMPUL'SATIVE (Shak.), compulsory.--p.adj. COMPULSED', compelled.--ns. COMPUL'SION, the act of compelling: force: necessity: violence; COMPUL'SITOR (Scots law), that which compels.--adj. COMPUL'SIVE, coercive: with power to compel.--adv. COMPUL'SIVELY; COMPUL'SORILY.--adj. COMPUL'SORY, compelled: obligatory: compelling. [L. compuls[=a]re, freq. of compell[)e]re, to compel.]
By Thomas Davidson
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