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Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. Sojth.

Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive. Any coactive power or the civil kind. Bp. Warburton.

In a coactive manner.

Unity of action.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [Obs.] "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham.

Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

In a compact manner.

A state of being compact.

One who makes a compact.

That may be compacted.

The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. [Obs.] Bacon.

In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.

Broken in pieces; severed. [Obs.]

The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. Raymond. Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

Act of touching. [Obs.]

ogether or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lesen; as, to contract one's shpere of action. In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. Dr. H. More.