Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In pathology, involuntary; compulsory: noting movements and attitudes in certain diseases of the central nervous system.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
compel .
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Examples
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Sorry, rpt, we thought that when you said “compelled” you mean *compelled*.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Bloggers Mugged by Regulators Become Economic Libertarians” 2009
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The power of the word compelled me to write a few of my own and as indifference became a luxury I could no longer afford, I chose confrontation, she said.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Arab Editor Aysha Taryam Slams Indifference Magda Abu-Fadil 2012
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The one piece of 'evidence' that I never read about is the ability of the 757/767 (since it was first produced, when my father flew it professionally, and when my teenage brain compelled me to read some of the 1st generation manuals, which I still have) to be remotely controlled in case of a terrorist attack or cabin depressurization.
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If a prosecution were merely threatened unless the girls engaged in compelled expression, then there is a First Amendment problem, and abstention is not a bar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Third Circuit Upholds Injunction of Threatened “Sexting” Prosecution 2010
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WHEREFORE, Waldo Jaquith respectfully prays that the Court enter an order quashing said subpoena duces tecum and that the Court set for hearing, prior to the issuance of any subsequent subpoena duces tecum, the issue of whether or not the material sought to be compelled is privileged or otherwise protected by law.
Waldo Jaquith - Motion to Quash in Garrett v. Better Publications. 2009
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The audacity and unconventionality of the storiettes was a shock to bourgeois morality and prejudice; but when Paris went mad over the immediate translation that was made, the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of
Chapter 43 2010
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The other big opening I missed recently (again compelled to choose between Plácido Domingo and something else), was Riccardo Muti's debut as music director of the Chicago Symphony last Thursday.
Season opening news from all over Anne Midgette 2010
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( "May not feel compelled" is particularly passive aggressive.)
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His expression compelled her-eyes that reached deep into her soul and touched the very fiber of her being.
On Wings Of Love Barker, Becky 2006
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The loss of buildings that began with the opening of the next term compelled a reduction in the enrollment.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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