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compeller|kəmˈpɛlə(r)| [f. as prec. + -er1.] 1. One who compels or constrains.
a1577Sir T. Smith in Strype Life App. iv. (1820) 254 What pleasure shall the compelled party have of the compeller? 1636Blunt Voy. Levant 117 (T.) That due proportion, which should be maintained between the compellers and the compelled. 2. One who drives; fig. one who guides or rules. See also cloud-compeller s.v. cloud n. 12.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 866/1 That this man was..cheefe compeller, and disposer of the kingdome. 1822Scott Pirate xxviii, Stern compeller of the clouds, thou also shalt hear the voice of the Reim-kennar. 1866Neale Seq. & Hymns 181 ‘Zeus father’..compeller of tempests. 1884Literary Era II. 147 First the creature and then the compeller of the movement. |