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Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

Giantship :: Giantship (n.) The state, personality, or character, of a giant; -- a compellation for a giant..

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..

Compeller :: Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.

Force :: Force (n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon..

Compellative :: Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

Coerce :: Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience..

Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away..

Compulsion :: Compulsion (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force..

Banish :: Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure..

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

Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

Rustication :: Rustication (n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time..

Force :: Force (n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind..

Compulsive :: Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.

Conviction :: Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation..

Enforce :: Enforce (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands..

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

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