? Obs. rare. [ad. L. compulsē-re, freq. of compellĕre to COMPEL, for which it was later often used in med.L.; so F. compulse-r.]
† 1. trans. To compel, force, oblige. Obs.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), V. 179. Compulsede by grete necessite.
1549. Latimer, 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 128. Manye parentes constrayne theyre sonnes and daughters to marrye where they loue not, and some are beaten and compulsed.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IV. (1682), 153. Adjudged to a most cruel death, or compulsed to renounce his Christian Religion.
2. To force to move. (nonce-use, after repulse.)
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VIII. XVIII. xiv. 73. Not to be compulsed by the raging tide of Austrian grenadiers.
Hence Compulsed ppl. a., compelled, forced.
1541. Barnes, Wks. (1573), 325/2. Compulsed chastity.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxiii. (D.). She rends her woes, shivers them in compulsed abhorrence.
