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Exact :: Exact (a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one..

Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..

Compellable :: Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.

Compelled :: Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compe.

Positive :: Positive (a.) Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof..

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away..

Driver :: Driver (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward..

Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..

Distringas :: Distringas (n.) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him..

Compellative :: Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force..

Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.

Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Compel :: Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Rustication :: Rustication (n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time..

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