Meaning of compulsative | Babel Free

Definitions

Compulsatory; employing force or constraint.

not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“But to recouer of vs by ſtrong hand / And termes Compulſatiue, thoſe foreſaid Lands”

“The infernall powers appeaſed with ſacrifice, prayers, and tedious murmurings (words ſoftly muttered barbarous and vnſignificant, leaſt they ſhould diſturbe the Imagination: although held by the deluded of a compulſative power) Medea cauſeth Æſon to be brought forth: […]”

“There seems to be something brotherly in compulsative religion; it forces a man to go to heaven nolens volens.”

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