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单词 compellable
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compellableadj.

/kəmˈpɛləb(ə)l/
Etymology: < compel v. + -able suffix.
Chiefly in legal use.
1. That may be compelled:
a. to do something.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be compelled
compellable1530
forceable1574
constrainable1593
coercible1656
compulsible1660
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student x. f. xxv They were not compellable by no lawe to make amendes for the trespas.
1618–29 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 687 The King is not compellible to call his Parliament.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 185 Joint-tenants..are compellable by writ of partition to divide their lands.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 436 The Parishioners..are compellable to put things in decent order.
b. to something (e.g. military service).
ΚΠ
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lxx. 298 They are..not compelable to forraine service.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 455 The Laity are not compellable hereunto.
c. absol.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > manageability > [adjective] > able to be compelled > to do something
compellable1625
1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 97 He doth it according to his Will, not compellable in the proper acts thereof.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 7 The outward senses are patient, and therefore compellible.
2. Compulsory. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > done, produced, or obtained by compulsion
threata1400
constraintc1430
compelled1541
compulsed1541
violent?1550
extorted1552
wrested1565
coacted1570
enforced1576
forced1576
compulsory1581
commandeda1586
coactive1596
infortiate1601
extortious1602
coact1610
compulsive1611
exacted1618
necessitous1632
violented1641
necessary1655
on-forced1656
commandatorya1659
extorsive1669
compellable1677
compulsatory1748
obbligato1780
coerced1877
mandatory1891
shotgun1937
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 25 The Register is voluntary, not compellable, so he that will Register may, and he that will not may chuse.

Derivatives

comˈpellably adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adverb]
constrainingly1382
compulsively1605
compulsorily1633
coactivelya1641
compellingly1654
necessitatingly1654
coercively1661
compulsatorily1748
compellably1818
compulsatively1844
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Compellably, in a forcible manner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1530
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