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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..

Coactive :: Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

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

Violence :: Violence (v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

Force :: Force (n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.

Subjugation :: Subjugate (v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish..

Compel :: Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.

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

Positive :: Positive (a.) Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Pulsive :: Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

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

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..

Cogent :: Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful..

Enforced :: Enforced (a.) Compelled; forced; not voluntary.

Perforce :: Perforce (v. t.) To force; to compel.

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

Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.

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