ppl. a. [f. COMPEL v.]

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  1.  Constrained, forced, necessitated: see the verb.

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1541.  Barnes, Wks. (1573), 328/1. Compelled chastitie is against the institution of the Gospell.

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1601.  Shaks., All’s Well, II. iv. 44. A compell’d restraint.

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1853.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. xxi. (1876), 272. The tenant of a compelled solitude.

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  b.  Path. Compelled movements: involuntary movements arising from irritation or lesion of some part of the central nervous system; compelled position, a position to which a patient constantly returns.

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1877.  trans. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., XII. 259. Compelled backward movenients have been observed in affections of the cerebellum.

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  2.  Driven or gathered together, collected. Obs.

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1613–6.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iii. Upon his brow Continuall bubbles like compelled drops.

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  Hence † Compelledly, adv., in a forced manner; by compulsion or constraint.

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1590.  C. S., Right Relig., 18. Feede … the flocke of Christ, not compelledly but willingly.

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a. 1603.  T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 458. [They] acknowledge (not compelledly but frankly) the spirituall power.

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