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By compulsion. [R.]

rating with force; compelling; forcing; constraininig; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. [R.] To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.

Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion. Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives. Sharp.

By compulsion; by force.

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden.

A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

eeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

he same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome. Southey.

To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion. Remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of the will . . . to the greatest apparent good. Locke.

unities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imper…