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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 482 b Of compulsary single life.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 2 The not giving counsell was compulsary.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 187 This author argues against the compulsory method of relief.

1861 Rep. Comm. State of Pop. Educ. Eng. I. i. vi. 300 The possibility of establishing a system of compulsory education in this country has been brought before us.

1861 Rep. Comm. State of Pop. Educ. Eng. I. i. vi. 300 Those systems of compulsory education by the State which are now established in Prussia and in other parts of Germany.

1862 C. Stretton Mem. Chequered Life II. 5 It was compulsory on me to pass his house.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. 549 The bondage of compulsory worship.

1881 O. Seaman in C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 155 The school game of Shrewsbury..is football. There are four or five compulsory games a week,..from which Sixth Form and those who have medical certificates of weak health are excused.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ii. 27 You'll have to play the compulsory games..but I want to see you playing..in the house-games.

1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 212 The modern reader of Tom Brown's Schooldays searches in vain for any reference to compulsory games.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day vi. 126 There is something to be said against compulsory games... But..I am glad I was made to play them.