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Incoercible :: Incoercible (a.) Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.

Incoacted :: Incoacted (a.) Not compelled; unconstrained.

Coact :: Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.

Adact :: Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..

Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..

Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights..

Cloud-compeller :: Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.

Press :: Press (v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder..

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages..

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate..

Convincingly :: Convincingly (adv.) in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.

Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..

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