compellatory

English

Adjective

compellatory (comparative more compellatory, superlative most compellatory)

  1. Serving to compel; compulsory.
  2. Being or relating to a compellation; addressing somebody by name.
    • 1830, Frederick Nolan, An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate, page 84:
      It is therefore the shallowest sophistry to contend, that because this quality is personified, or used in a compellatory form, it is therefore used as an honorary title.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “compellatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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