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compel
English
Etymology
From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”). Displaced native Middle English fordriven ("to drive out, to lead to, to compel, to force"), from Old English fordr?fan. More at fordrive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?m?p?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
- Hyphenation: com?pel
Verb
compel (third-person singular simple present compels, present participle compelling, simple past and past participle compelled)
- (transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To overpower; to subdue.
- (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.
- Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 5, scene 1,
- Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- Wolsey […] compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
- (transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.
- (obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
- Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid
- I compel all creatures to my will.
- (obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
- in one troop compell'd
- (obsolete) To call forth; to summon.
Derived terms
Related terms
- compulsion
Translations
References
- compel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “compel” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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dragoon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French dragon. Doublet of Draco and dragon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d????u?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
dragoon (plural dragoons)
- (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
- If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
Take all the remarkable people in history,
Rattle them off to a popular tune!
- If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience
- A carrier of a dragon musket.
- A variety of pigeon.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
Translations
Further reading
- dragoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)
- (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.
- Synonym: compel
- (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.
Related terms
- dragooner
Translations
Anagrams
- gadroon
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