| Pronunciation: | | kum'pulsuree
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| Matching Terms: | | compulsorily, compulsory process
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| | Definition: | | [adj] required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" |
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| | Synonyms: | | mandatory, obligatory, required |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.]
1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to
compulsion.
This contribution threatening to fall infinitely
short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
--Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute, binding, choiceless, coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, conclusive, constraining, decisive, decretory, dictated, driving, entailed, exigent, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, inevitable, involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, necessitous, obligatory, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, pressing, required, restraining, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice |
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