Compel

Compel (compel)
v. t.	(?)
Com*pel"
[imp. ** p. p.* Compelled (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n* Compelling.] [L. compellere, compulsum, to drive together, to compel, urge] com- + pellere to drive: cf. OF. compe

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
Hallam.

And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
Mark xv. 21.

To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

[R.]

Commissions, which compel from each
The sixth part of his substance.
Shak.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled.
Dryden.

I compel all creatures to my will.
Tennyson.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

[A Latinism] "In one troop compelled." Dryden.

To call forth; to summon.

[Obs.] Chapman.

She had this knight from far compelled.
Spenser.

Syn. -- To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See Coerce.

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