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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..

Interpleader :: Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him..

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

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

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

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

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

Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

Compeller :: Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Rusticate :: Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

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..

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

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..

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..

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