Verb

(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up (rfex)

To overpower; to subdue.

* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 16,

She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.

To force, constrain or coerce.

Logic compels''' the wise, while fools feel '''compelled by emotions.

* 1600 , , Julius Caesar , act 5, sc. 1,

Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.

* Hallam

Wolsey compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.

To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.

* Shakespeare

Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.

* 1912 , , Sky Island , ch. 14,

The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.

(obsolete) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.

* Dryden

Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled .

* Tennyson

I compel all creatures to my will.

(obsolete) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.

* Dryden

in one troop compelled

(obsolete) To call forth; to summon.

* Spenser

She had this knight from far compelled .

(Chapman)

Verb

(en-verb)

To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply , / Scandalous or forbidden in our law.

* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)

They did servilely comply with the people in worshiping God by sensible images.

* 1664? , , (Hudibras)

He that complies against his will / Is of his own opinion still.

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(label) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.

* 1599 , , II. ii. 371:

Let me comply with you in this / garb, lest my extent to the players, which I tell you must / show fairly outwards, should more appear like entertainment / than yours.

(label) To fulfill; to accomplish.

(Chapman)

(label) To enfold; to embrace.

* (1591-1674)

Seemed to comply , / Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.