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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.

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

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

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

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

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..

Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

Have :: Have (v. t.) To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

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..

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

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

Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..

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

Coact :: Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.

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

Imperious :: Imperious (a.) Imperative; urgent; compelling.

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..

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

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