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compellable, a. Chiefly in legal use.|kəmˈpɛləb(ə)l|
[f. compel + -able.]
1. That may be compelled:
a. to do something.
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. x. (1638) 76 They were not compellable by no law to make amends for the trespas. 1618–29Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 687 The King is not compellible to call his Parliament. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 185 Joint-tenants..are compellable by writ of partition to divide their lands. 1857Toulm. Smith Parish 436 The Parishioners..are compellable to put things in decent order.
b. to something (e.g. military service).
1649Selden Laws Eng. i. lxx. (1739) 187 They are..not compellable to foreign service. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 455 The Laity are not compellable hereunto.
c. absol.
1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar x. 97 He doth it according to his Will, not compellable in the proper acts thereof. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind., Arts & Sc. 7 The outward senses are patient, and therefore compellible.
†2. Compulsory. Obs.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 25 The Register is voluntary, not compellable, so he that will Register may, and he that will not may chuse.
Hence comˈpellably adv.
1818Todd, Compellably, in a forcible manner. |