Verb

(induc)

To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.

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To cause, bring about, lead to.

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(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

(logic) To infer by induction.

(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.

(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.

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)