Compulsative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Compulsative is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Compulsatory; employing force or constraint.
Meaning
(obsolete) Compulsatory; employing force or constraint.
Example Sentences
But to recouer of vs by ſtrong hand / And termes Compulſatiue, thoſe foreſaid Lands
There seems to be something brotherly in compulsative religion; it forces a man to go to heaven nolens volens.
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: […]
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