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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compel \Com*pel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compelled}; p. pr & vb
n {Compelling}.] [L. compellere, compulsum to drive
together, to compel, urge; com- + pellere to drive: cf OF
compellir. See {Pulse}.]
1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to
constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical
or moral force.
Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the
whole subsidy at once. --Hallam.
And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
--Mark xv 21.
2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to
extort. [R.]
Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part
of his substance. --Shak.
3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. --Dryden.
I compel all creatures to my will --Tennyson.
4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism]
``In one troop compelled.'' --Dryden.
5. To call forth; to summon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
She had this knight from far compelled. --Spenser.
Syn: To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See
{Coerce}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compel \Com*pel"\, v. i.
To make one yield or submit. ``If she can not entreat, I can
compel.'' --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
compel
v 1: force or compel somebody to do something "We compel all
students to fill out this form" [syn: {oblige}, {obligate}]
2: make someone do something [syn: {command}, {require}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
Compel
{COMpute ParallEL}
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