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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.

Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.

By compulsion.

Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.

The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

Serving to compel; compulsory. [R.]

One who compels or constrains.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

ence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to. They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey.

To compel; to drive. [Obs.] Fotherby.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

To compel or drive by the bayonet. To bayonet us into submission. Burke.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.

Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; -- followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to fail.

A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders in China are compelled to wear as a punishment.

To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away. Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles.

To force; to compel; to drive. [Obs.] The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted. Foxe.

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

To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.