ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Compellatory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Compellatory is an adjective meaning Serving to compel; compulsory.

Meaning

Serving to compel; compulsory.

More Meanings

  1. Being or relating to a compellation; addressing somebody by name.

Example Sentences

It is therefore the shallowest sophistry to contend, that because this quality is personified, or used in a compellatory form, it is therefore used as an honorary title. And as, in the same age, the existence of honorary titles is without example or proof, and the form of compellation by characteristic qualities thus generally prevalent; it is palpably to oppose every sound principle of logic, to dispute, that the contested term is not used as a quality, but employed as a title.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pulsive, enforcive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsative, compulsive.

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