compellation
Syllables: com·pel·lat·ionUK/ˌkɒmpəˈleɪʃən//ˌkɑmpəˈleɪʃən/
compellation noun: an act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
Noun
compellation (plural compellations)
- An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
- What are the parts of this prayer [the Lord's Prayer]? They are three. 1. A Preface of compellation for entrance into prayer, in the firſt words, Our Father which art in heaven, &c.1645, James Usher [i.e., James Ussher], “[Of Prayer in Generall, and the Lords Prayer in Particular, with the Preamble thereof]”, in A Body of Divinitie, or The Svmme and Svbstance of Christian...
- A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.
- Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Democritvs Ivnior to the Reader”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for...
- Son of David, O Lord thou ſon of David:] In this compellation, conſider why Chriſt is called the ſon of David, never the ſon of Adam, never the ſon of Abraham?1645, Samuel Rutherfurd [i.e., Samuel Rutherford], “Sermon VII”, in The Tryal & Trivmph of Faith: or, An Exposition of the History of Christs Dispossessing of the Daughter of the Woman of Canaan....
- An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.
- [O]ne Cornet [George] Joyce a buſie pragmatical perſon, whom [Oliver] Cromwell his Familiar had tutored in the Method of Boldneſſe and Rebellion, was privately conferred with about it, and after ſome familiar compellations hugged into the Conſpiracy, and immediately diſpatched away with a party of...1665, [James Heath], Flagellum: Or The Life and Death, Birth and Burial of O. Cromwell, the Late Usurper: Faithfully Described. […], 3rd edition, London: […] W. G. for Randall Taylor, […], →OCLC...
- Is it not the Voice of my Beloved [Jesus]? Do I not hear him, with the most inſinuating Compellations, inviting me to his Table, bidding me to come, for all Things are ready; [...]1743, Samuel Willard, “Meditation, XXXVII. Complaints of Deadness and Indisposition.”, in Some Brief Sacramental Meditations Preparatory for Communion at the Great Ordinance of the Supper, 2nd...
Examples of compellation in a sentence
- The common Compellation of the Scottiſh Kings, was Dominus Rex, and ſometimes Illuſtriſſimus Dominus Ligeus, and about K.1710, John Chamberlayne, “Of the King of Scotland; […]”, in Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia: Or, The Present State of Great-Britain, with Divers...
- Creatures of clay!] Nothing could have been more appoſitely imagined than this compellation.1786, [Samuel Henley], “Notes”, in [William Beckford, translated by Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […]...
- The other name (the Communion) is likewiſe a compellation which St Paul has given of this holy rite.1794, “The Order for the Administration of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion”, in The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the...
- Such compellations destroy, in some degree, the effect of character, by awakening an anticipation of what it is to be.1812, William Mudford, chapter XXI, in The Life of Richard Cumberland, Esq.: Embracing a Critical Examination of His Various Writings. […]...
Forms of compellation
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Origin of compellation
Borrowed from Latin compellātiōnem (“act of addressing”) + English -ion (suffix indicating the result of an action or process). Compellātiōnem is the accusative singular of compellātiō (“a rebuke, reprimand, reproof”), from compellō (“to compel; to urge; to drive together”) (from com- (prefix indicating a bringing together of several things) + pellō (“to drive, impel; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach; to drive; to strike; to thrust”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Compare appellation.
Words that rhyme with compellation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about compellation
- What does compellation mean?
- Compellation means an act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
- How do you use compellation in a sentence?
- The common Compellation of the Scottiſh Kings, was Dominus Rex, and ſometimes Illuſtriſſimus Dominus Ligeus, and about K.
- What part of speech is compellation?
- Compellation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce compellation?
- Compellation is pronounced /ˌkɒmpəˈleɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of compellation?
- The plural of compellation is compellations.
Words near compellation in the dictionary
Source and license
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