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n. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

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

Serving to compel; compulsory. [R.]

A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.

Constraining; compulsory. [R.] "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

cessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; -- opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. Which now they hold by force, and not by right. Shak.

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.

he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.

n option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n.

Tending to compel; compulsory. [R.] "The pulsive strain of conscience." Marston.

The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises…

ld intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain equality of opportunity, as compulsory state insurance, old-age pensions, etc., answering closely to socialism of the chair.