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

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.

By appulsion.

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

By compulsion; by force.

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers.

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

lling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent. Poor men! poor papers! We and they Do some impulsive force obey. Prior.

In an impulsive manner.

The quality of being impulsive.

Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. "[The] propulsive movement of the verse." Coleridge.

Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force. Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. Pope.

Driving back; repelling.

Self-repelling.

A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.

d in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.…

Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive. "Distasteful looks." Shak.

eamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to th…

Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive. Marsion. -- En*for"cive*ly, adv.