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  1.  One who compels or constrains.

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a. 1577.  Sir T. Smith, in Strype, Life, App. iv. (1820), 254. What pleasure shall the compelled party have of the compeller?

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1636.  Blunt, Voy. Levant, 117 (T.). That due proportion, which should be maintained between the compellers and the compelled.

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  2.  One who drives; fig. one who guides or rules. See also cloud-compeller s.v. CLOUD sb. 12.

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1577–87.  Holinshed, Chron., III. 866/1. That this man was … cheefe compeller, and disposer of the kingdome.

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1822.  Scott, Pirate, xxviii. Stern compeller of the clouds, thou also shalt hear the voice of the Reim-kennar.

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1866.  Neale, Seq. & Hymns, 181. ‘Zeus father’ … compeller of tempests.

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1884.  Literary Era, II. 147. First the creature and then the compeller of the movement.

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