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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..

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..

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..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

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..

Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful..

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.

Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

Pulsive :: Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

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

Force :: Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind..

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

Compellably :: Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.

Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..

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..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

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

Press :: Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd..

Compelling :: Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compe.

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

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