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Compulsory vs Compulsatory - What's the difference?

compulsory | compulsatory |

As adjectives the difference between compulsory and compulsatory

is that compulsory is required; obligatory; mandatory while compulsatory is enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.

As a noun compulsory

is something that is compulsory or required.

compulsory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Required; obligatory; mandatory.
  • * 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
    • They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
  • * 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
    • Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

    • Synonyms

    * mandatory

    Antonyms

    * (required) optional

    Noun

    (compulsories)
  • Something that is compulsory or required.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}

    compulsatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.
  • * c.1599-1601 , , Act 1, Scene 1,
    • But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory , those foresaid lands / So by his father lost: ...
  • * 1810 , Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Di Montranzo ,
    • Shall I patiently await the return of the guard destined to seize Father Brazilio, destined to conduct him a prisoner to Rome, and likewise destined to obtain the packet once written by Father Luitfrido, and deposited by him in the hands of the Abbot of St. Romuald, and which the absolution of a compulsatory vow no longer rendered sacred?
  • * 1951', , '''''Compulsatory education in Australia: a study by the Australian national co-operating body for education ,