1. [v]  make someone do something
2. [v]  force or compel somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form"

1. \Com*pel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Compelled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n {Compelling}.] [L. compellere, compulsum, to drive
   together, to compel, urge; com- + pellere to drive: cf. OF.
   compellir. See {Pulse}.]
   1. To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to
      constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical
      or moral force.
            Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the
            whole subsidy at once.                --Hallam.
            And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross.
                                                  --Mark xv. 21.
   2. To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to
      extort. [R.]
            Commissions, which compel from each The sixth part
            of his substance.                     --Shak.
   3. To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
            Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. --Dryden.
            I compel all creatures to my will.    --Tennyson.
   4. To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism]
      ``In one troop compelled.'' --Dryden.
   5. To call forth; to summon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
            She had this knight from far compelled. --Spenser.
   Syn: To force; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce. See
        {Coerce}.
   

2. \Com*pel"\, v. i.
   To make one yield or submit. ``If she can not entreat, I can
   compel.'' --Shak.
   

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