compellation

Noun

1. An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
   • What are the parts of this prayer [the Lord's Prayer]? They are three. 1. A Preface of compellation for entrance into prayer, in the firſt words, Our Father which art in heaven, &c. - 1645, James Usher [i.e., James...
2. A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.
   • Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads. - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton],...
   • Son of David, O Lord thou ſon of David:] In this compellation, conſider why Chriſt is called the ſon of David, never the ſon of Adam, never the ſon of Abraham? - 1645, Samuel Rutherfurd [i.e., Samuel Rutherford],...
   • The common Compellation of the Scottiſh Kings, was Dominus Rex, and ſometimes Illuſtriſſimus Dominus Ligeus, and about K. James III's time, Metuendiſſimus. - 1710, John Chamberlayne, “Of the King of Scotland; […]”, in...
3. An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.
   • [O]ne Cornet [George] Joyce a buſie pragmatical perſon, whom [Oliver] Cromwell his Familiar had tutored in the Method of Boldneſſe and Rebellion, was privately conferred with about it, and after ſome familiar...
   • Is it not the Voice of my Beloved [Jesus]? Do I not hear him, with the most inſinuating Compellations, inviting me to his Table, bidding me to come, for all Things are ready; [...] - 1743, Samuel Willard, “Meditation,...
   • It is drummers and the musician's instrumental compellations, it is those who are adorned with beautiful and vibrant colors of clothing, it is the magnificent and well-crafted jewelry, and the developmental commitment...