COMPEL,
1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly to constrain to oblige to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bound servant. Levit. 25.
And they compel one Simon--to bear his cross. Mark 15 .
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14 .
Circumstances compel us to practice economy.
2. To force to take by force, or violence to seize.
The subjects grief comes through commissions, which compel from each a sixth part of his substance.
3. To drive together to gather to unite in a crowd or company. A Latinism, compellere gregem.
In one troop compelled.
4. To seize to overpower to hold.
And easy sleep their weary limbs compelled.
5. To call forth, L. compeller.