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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..

Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.

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

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..

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..

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.

Press :: Press (v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment..

Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.

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..

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

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..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail..

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

Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

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

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..

Coactive :: Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

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

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..

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