constrain
verb (used with object)
to force, compel, or oblige.
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It has been struck by the Hebrew Prophets and the Christian Apostles: by Savonarola and Fichte, and a host of heroic souls; but by no one more clearly and constrainingly than by Plato.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde