Definition of Compel

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Compel

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

To call forth; to summon.

To make one yield or submit.

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Compel Quotations

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Virgil

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Bruce Barton

To advise is not to compel.
Anton Chekhov

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar

I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
Mary MacLane

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
Ernestine Rose

Compel Translations

compel in Afrikaans is verplig, dwing
compel in Danish is tvinge
compel in Dutch is verplichten, dwingen, noodzaken
compel in French is astreignons, astreindre, astreins, astreignent
compel in Latin is compello, coacto, cogo
compel in Portuguese is compila
compel in Spanish is obligar
compel in Swedish is tvinga, betvinga

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