compulsitorn.

/kəmˈpʌlsɪtə/

Etymology: apparently a corruption of an earlier compulsator, Scots for compulsatory: see -or suffix, -ory suffix². The i is etymologically indefensible.

Scots Law.

That which compels; a compulsatory instrument, act, or proceeding.

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1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 210 As a compulsitor..of payment..we had first the letters of four forms.

1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 85 The King..reproached the Principal with pusillanimity in yielding to so slight a compulsitor.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 349 To restrain rash..litigation..by the religious compulsitor of an oath.

1888 Sc. Law Rev. in Law Times 85 328/1 For the debtor..there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	compulsitor
释义	compulsitorn. /kəmˈpʌlsɪtə/ Etymology: apparently a corruption of an earlier compulsator, Scots for compulsatory: see -or suffix, -ory suffix². The i is etymologically indefensible. Scots Law. That which compels; a compulsatory instrument, act, or proceeding. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. x. 210 As a compulsitor..of payment..we had first the letters of four forms. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 85 The King..reproached the Principal with pusillanimity in yielding to so slight a compulsitor. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 349 To restrain rash..litigation..by the religious compulsitor of an oath. 1888 Sc. Law Rev. in Law Times 85 328/1 For the debtor..there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1816
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