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

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..

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..

Cogency :: Cogency (n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

Conviction :: Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation..

Compulsion :: Compulsion (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force..

Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

Giantship :: Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant..

Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands..

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

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..

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..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

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..

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure..

Force :: Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon..

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

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

Press :: Press (v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

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