compulsative

English

Etymology

From Late Latin compulsāt-, participial stem of compulsāre, intensitive form of Latin compellere (“to compel”).

Adjective

compulsative (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Recover of us, by strong hand
     And terms compulsative, those foresaid lands.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compulsative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)