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Compulsatory :: Compulsatory (a.) Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion..

Force :: Force (n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor..

Stick :: Stick (n.) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat..

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

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

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

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

Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..

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..

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..

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

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

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

Crying :: Crying (a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil..

Compellatory :: Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.

Cloud-compeller :: Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.

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..

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..

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

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..

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