† compellatoryadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Compulsory.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective]
strainable1483
compellatory?a1562
coactive1593
inforcive1596
enforcive1598
coercivea1600
constraining1602
constraintive1602
pulsive1602
compulsive1604
compulsatory1610
compellinga1616
compulsativea1616
compulsory1631
coercitive1632
coactinga1641
enforcinga1657
coercent1660
imposing1665
cogent1672
compellent1847
high-pressured1868
coercionary1884
steamroller1896
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 78 That a kyng and a quene to be..constrayned by processe compellatory to appere in any Court (as comen persons).
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adj.?a1562- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to careor matter a farthing
- not to choose
- not to count a thing at a cress
- not to count at a cress
- not to do something for the world
- not to etc a mite
- not to etc a rap
- not to etc a word of
- not to get a look-in
- not to get a lookin
- not to get a person anywhere
- not to get any change out of
- not to get any change out of a person
- not to get any change out of a situation
- not to get anywhere
- not to get much change out of
- not to get much change out of a person
- not to get much change out of a situation
- not to give a bugger
- not to give a button
- not to give a continental
- not to give a crap
- not to give a curse