compel

To drive together, round up.archaicliterallytransitive

• The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.

To overpower; to subdue.transitive

• She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.

To force, constrain, or coerce.transitive

• Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.
• Congratulations, your courage compels respect.

To forcefully or powerfully motivate (a course of action).transitive

• As the novel progresses, it picks up a propulsive energy, the kind that compels you to keep reading straight through to the end.

To have a strong, irresistible force (on someone or something).transitive

To exact, extort, (make) produce by force.transitive

• Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
• The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.obsolete

• Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd.
• And I will fetch you forage from all fields, / For I compel all creatures to my will.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company.obsolete

• in one troop compell'd

To call forth; to summon.obsolete

• She had this knight from far compeld.
• the pow'rs that I compel / Shall throw thee hence, and make thy head run ope the gates of hel