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compelled, ppl. a.|kəmˈpɛld|
[f. compel v.]
1. Constrained, forced, necessitated: see the verb.
1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 328/1 Compelled chastitie is against the institution of the Gospell. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iv. 44 A compell'd restraint. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xxi. (1876) 272 The tenant of a compelled solitude.
b. Path. compelled movements: involuntary movements arising from irritation or lesion of some part of the central nervous system; compelled position, a position to which a patient constantly returns.
1877tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XII. 259 Compelled backward movements have been observed in affections of the cerebellum.
2. Driven or gathered together, collected. Obs.
1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii, Upon his brow Continuall bubbles like compelled drops.
Hence † comˈpelledly, adv., in a forced manner; by compulsion or constraint.
1590C. S. Right Relig. 18 Feede..the flocke of Christ, not compelledly but willingly. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 458 [They] acknowledge (not compelledly but frankly) the spirituall power. |