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compellare

1 compellare [CL] , to greet, accost. b to accuse. compellans sobolem verbo currente per aethram Aldh. VirgV 430; 9‥ ~ens [sic], gretende WW; verecundo non differat ore puella / compellare virum? H. Avr. Hugh 241.  b nemo suum hominem a se dimittat priusquam mundus sit in omnibus causis quibus fuerat ante ~atus [AS: beclypod] (Quad.) GAS 331; si dominus de felonia vel fide mentita ~et hominem suum (Leg. Hen. 53. 4) Ib. 574; simplex et vacua compellatio est ubi ex neutra parte, ~antis sc. aut ~ati, testis est (Ib. 45. 1a) Ib. 570.
2 compellare v. 2 compellere(1a)

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