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compel

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcompellen, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchcompellir, fromLatincompellere, itself fromcom-(“together”) +pellere(“to drive”). Displaced nativeOld Englishnīedan.

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Verb

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compel (third-person singular simple presentcompels,present participlecompelling,simple past and past participlecompelled)

  1. (transitive, archaic, literally) Todrivetogether,round up.
    The shepherdscompelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.
  2. (transitive) Tooverpower; tosubdue.
    • 1917,Upton Sinclair, chapter 16, inKing Coal:
      She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistiblycompel the soul of a man.
  3. (transitive) Toforce,constrain orcoerce.
    Logiccompels the wise, while fools feelcompelled by emotions.
    • 1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i]:
      Against my will, / As Pompey was, am Icompell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
    • 1827, Henry Hallam,The Constitutional History of England from the Accession ofHenry VII. to the Death ofGeorge II. […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:John Murray, […],→OCLC:
      Wolsey[…]compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
    • 2020,N. K. Jemisin,The City We Became, Orbit, page173:
      And then she giggles,inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.
    • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      Sellafieldcompels this kind of gaze into the abyss of deep time because it is a place where multiple time spans – some fleeting, some cosmic – drift in and out of view.
  4. (transitive) Toexact,extort, (make)produce byforce.
  5. (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
  6. (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
  7. (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

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Translations

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drive together, round up
overpower
force, constrain or coerce
exact by force
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