society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > to or into an action or state > by violence (2)
transitive. To force (a person) into a specified action or situation by rioting. Frequently with into. Now rare (chiefly North American in later use).
transitive. In passive. Of a person: to be forced into an action, etc., or driven from a place, by the persuasion or aggression of a mob or other…