compulsative
English
Etymology
From Late Latin compulsāt-, participial stem of compulsāre, intensitive form of compellere (“to compel”).
Adjective
compulsative (not comparable)
- (obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
- Shakespeare, Hamlet I.i.
- Recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsative, those foresaid lands.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet I.i.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for compulsative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)