Definition of compel

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Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

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Imperious :: Imperious (a.) Imperative; urgent; compelling.
Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..
Convincingly :: Convincingly (adv.) in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
Distress :: Distress (n.) To compel by pain or suffering.
Cloud-compeller :: Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.
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.
Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power..
Exaction :: Exaction (n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion..
Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.
Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
Have :: Have (v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.
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..
Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.
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..
Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder..
Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful..
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..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room..
Coact :: Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.
Rusticate :: Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
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