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        "kəmˈpɛl"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English compellen, borrowed from Middle French compellir, from Latin compellere, itself from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English nīedan."
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              "mean": "(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (Can we add an example for this sense?)"
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              "mean": "(transitive) To overpower; to subdue.\n1917,  Upton Sinclair,  chapter 16, in  King Coal:She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.\nLogic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.\n1599 (first performance),  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.\n1827,  Henry Hallam,  The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, , →OCLC:Wolsey    compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.\n2020,  N. K. Jemisin,  The City We Became, Orbit, page 173:And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.\nDecember 15 2022,  Samanth Subramanian,  “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in  The Guardian‎:Sellafield compels this kind of gaze into the abyss of deep time because it is a place where multiple time spans – some fleeting, some cosmic – drift in and out of view."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.\n1613 (date written),  William Shakespeare; ,  “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.\n1912,  L. Frank Baum,  chapter 14, in  Sky Island:The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.\n1697,  Virgil,  “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London:    Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd.\n1859,  Alfred Tennyson,  “Enid”, in  Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, page 79:And I will fetch you forage from all fields, / For I compel all creatures to my will."
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            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.\n1700,   Dryden,  “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in  Fables Ancient and Modern; , London:    Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:in one troop compell'd"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.\n1590,  Edmund Spenser,  “Book I, Canto I”, in  The Faerie Queene. , London:     for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:She had this knight from far compeld.\n,  Homer,  “Book V”, in Geo Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London:    Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC;   The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC:the pow'rs that I compel / Shall throw thee hence, and make thy head run ope the gates of hel"
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