compel
verb (used with object)
to force or drive, especially to a course of action.
compellable
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a word derived from
compel.
Example Sentences
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Afterward they were compellable to perform any military service, under the penalty of losing their privileges as citizens.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy
The importance still attached to the harvest season is shown by the section that all artificers and others were compellable to work in harvest or be put in the stocks two days and a night.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
These might, indeed, supply their posts with some other able-bodied men; but if no such could have been found, the obligation nevertheless remained, and they were compellable to serve in their own proper persons.
From Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 by Henry Fielding
They are not compellable to march out of their counties, unless in case of invasion or actual rebellion, nor in any case compellable to march out of the kingdom.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
