adv. [f. prec.] In a compulsive manner; by compulsion.
1. By means of, or in the way of, compulsion.
1605. Play Stucley, 43, in Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 159. If you give me her hand and not her heart. The one, I know you may, compulsively: The other, never but unwillingly.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 14. Frenzy in the Tories, to hope to be ever able to … compulsively extinguish the Schism … of our Dissenters.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1859), II. 386. The government compulsively contracted the press by their twenty stationery printers.
† 2. Under compulsion, on compulsion. Obs.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. lxvi. If wee doe ill compulsiuely, wee are cleered by the violence.
1827. Southey, Hist. Penins. War, II. 489. To have suffered even compulsively its yoke and its contempt.
