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▪ I. † comˈpulse, n. Obs.—0
[ad. L. compulsu-s, f. compellĕre to compel.]
= compulsion.
1616Bullokar, Compulse, constraint, enforcement.
▪ II. compulse, v. ? Obs. rare.|kəmˈpʌls|
[ad. L. compulsā-re, freq. of compellĕre to compel, for which it was later often used in med.L.; so F. compulse-r.]
†1. trans. To compel, force, oblige. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 179 Compulsede by grete necessite. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 128 Manye parentes constrayne theyre sonnes and daughters to marrye where they loue not, and some are beaten and compulsed. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. (1682) 153 Adjudged to a most cruel death, or compulsed to renounce his Christian Religion.
2. To force to move. (nonce-use, after repulse.)
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VIII. xviii. xiv. 73 Not to be compulsed by the raging tide of Austrian grenadiers.
Hence comˈpulsed ppl. a., compelled, forced.
1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 325/2 Compulsed chastity. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxiii. (D.), She rends her woes, shivers them in compulsed abhorrence. |