compulsative

Compulsatory; employing force or constraint.

Adjective

  1. Compulsatory; employing force or constraint.
    • But to recouer of vs by ſtrong hand / And termes Compulſatiue, thoſe foreſaid Lands - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
    • The infernall powers appeaſed with ſacrifice, prayers, and tedious murmurings (words ſoftly muttered barbarous and vnſignificant, leaſt they ſhould diſturbe the Imagination: although held by the deluded of a...
    • There seems to be something brotherly in compulsative religion; it forces a man to go to heaven nolens volens. - 1799, J[ohann] G[eorg von] Zimmermann, Reflections on Men and Things; Translated from a French Manuscript...

Origin

From Late Latin compulsāt-, participial stem of compulsāre, intensitive form of Latin compellere (“to compel”).

Derived

compulsatively