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To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

An associate; a confederate. [Obs.] Every hour more competitors Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth. Shak.

gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.

lding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

An accomplice. [Obs.] To quell the rebels and their complices. Shak.

approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to. Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . . Should compliment their foes and shun their friends. Prior.

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. I know their complot is to have my life. Shak.

mes followed by with. How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute. Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts.

A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam. Cleared by composition with their creditors. Blackstone.

debt, obligation, or crime. Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras.

y; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. Pope. Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. Dryden.

f; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

ption, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of. Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. I. Watts.