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uncomˈpelled, ppl. a.
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1470–1Rolls of Parlt. VI. 233/1 The other pety Capytaynes affermed to be trewe at their Dethes, uncompelled, unstured or undesired soo to doo. 1548Patten Exped. Scotl. O j b, Thear wear but fewe of Lordes..and gentlemen in the feld, but..did thearin right willyngly & vncompeld their partes. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 4 b, They..runne vncompelled, and doe more than al the whole law requireth. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. 3 The Golden Age was first; which vncompeld, And without rule, in Faith and Truth exceld. 1648Boyle Seraph. Love xxv. (1700) 152 The amorous Needle, once joyn'd unto the Load-stone, would never uncompell'd forsake the inchanting Mineral. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 420 But..swear To keep my voyage from the royal ear, Nor uncompelled the dang'rous truth betray. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xii, Still uncompell'd, He would not yield dominion of his mind. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iv. 544 Of course the people came in uncompelled. |