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compulsitor Sc. Law.|kəmˈpʌlsɪtə(r)|
[app. a corruption of an earlier compulsator, Sc. for compulsatory: see -or, -ory. The i is etymologically indefensible.]
That which compels; a compulsatory instrument, act, or proceeding.
1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, As a compulsitor..of payment..we had first the letters of four forms. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 85 The King..reproached the Principal with pusillanimity in yielding to so slight a compulsitor. 1880Muirhead tr. Instit. Gaius iv. §171 To restrain rash..litigation..by the religious compulsitor of an oath. 1888Sc. Law Rev. in Law Times LXXXV. 328/1 For the debtor..there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty. |