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C — Compoundable to Compulsion (Part 6 of 6)

Compulsative
(Com*pul"sa*tive) a. [From L. compulsare, v. intens. of compellere. See Compel.] Compulsatory. [R.] Shak.

Compulsatively
(Com*pul"sa*tive*ly), adv. By compulsion. [R.]

Compulsatory
(Com*pul"sa*to*ry) a. Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.]

To recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands.
Shak.

Compulsion
(Com*pul"sion) n. [L. compulsio. See Compel.] 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.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Shak.
With what compulsion and laborious flight
We sunk thus low.
Milton.

Syn. — See Constraint.