coerciveadj.n.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. iii, in Wks. (1662) 6 Power..coercive over other Ministers.

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. iii. i. 5 The King..had taken a more harsh and coercive way.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 360 Twelve moons the foe the captive youth detains In painful dungeons, and coercive chains.

1836 D. W. Harvey in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 32 22 If..it was necessary to resort to coercive legislation, in order to make men religious?

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 92 A coercive police..who would have held down the people while they learnt their lesson by starvation.

1880 W. E. Forster Let. Gladstone 25 Oct. Should we accompany our coercive measure by any counter-bill?

1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback ii. iv. 59 [A rider] adopting coercive measures for his own safety.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 369 I see no coercive argument, to enforce his beliefe to the contrary, can be taken out of Scripture.

1728 Pope's Dunc. i. 104 (note) His reasons for this Fury..are so strong and so coercive.

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 27 The next Phænomenon..is equally coercive, if Men would reflect or attend to it at all.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 21 Free from the coercive power of head-bands and other artificial violence.

1679 J. Newburgh in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva (ed. 3) 392 It may seem incredible that so thin a skin should be more coercive to a mutinous Liquor, than a Barrel.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 15 All things on the Surface spread, are bound By their Coercive Vigour to the ground!

1827 J. Cumming Man. Electro Dynamics iv. 168 That resistance to a change in the direction of the particles, which, in the common theory of magnetism, is termed its coercive force.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 288/1 A nonconducting energy, called the coercive power, exists in magnetic substances, by which the loss of magnetism when developed is prevented..This is not the case with soft iron, which has not the coercive force.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. xv. 407 Philosophers have been obliged to infer the existence of a special force..They call it coercive force.

1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields vii. 282 The magnitude of the magnetic field intensity H at this point is known as the coercive force.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. (1678) 12 His tribunal takes cognisance of all causes, and hath a coercive for all.

1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino Pref. p. xx They..would push upon Coercives..and make equal Restraints upon their Fellow Christians.

1822 ‘P. Beauchamp’ Anal. Infl. Nat. Relig. i. 18 No known apprehension will act as a sufficient coercive upon his mind.