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compellatory

compellatory adjective: serving to compel; compulsory.

Adjective

compellatory (comparative more compellatory, superlative most compellatory)

  1. Serving to compel; compulsory.
  2. Being or relating to a compellation; addressing somebody by name.
    • It is therefore the shallowest sophistry to contend, that because this quality is personified, or used in a compellatory form, it is therefore used as an honorary title. And as, in the same age, the existence of honorary titles is without example or proof, and the form of compellation by...1830, Frederick Nolan, An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate, page 84

Forms of compellatory

comparativemore compellatory
superlativemost compellatory

Questions about compellatory

What does compellatory mean?
Compellatory means serving to compel; compulsory.
What part of speech is compellatory?
Compellatory is an adjective.

Words near compellatory in the dictionary

  1. compellance
  2. compellation
  3. compellations
  4. compellative
  5. compellatives
  6. compellatory
  7. compelled
  8. compelled speech
  9. compelled testimony
  10. compelledly
  11. compellence

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