Sc. Law. [app. a corruption of an earlier compulsator, Sc. for compulsatory: see -OR, -ORY. The i is etymologically indefensible.] That which compels; a compulsatory instrument, act, or proceeding.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xxxix. As a compulsitor … of payment we had first the letters of four forms.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 85. The King … reproached the Principal with pusillanimity in yielding to so slight a compulsitor.
1880. Muirhead, trans. Instit. Gaius, IV. § 171. To restrain rash litigation … by the religious compulsitor of an oath.
1888. Sc. Law Rev., in Law Times, LXXXV. 328/1. For the debtor … there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty.
