Usage examples (26)

• Verb (used with object) : His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him
• Any "competent and compellable person" can be called, with Ginwala's approval, to give evidence.
• Winter said it appeared to him that Smith was "both competent and compellable", and said the psychologist could be called to testify.
• The act provided that “no person shall be compellable to work above Eight Days in the year, nor at any time in seed-time, Hay or Corn-Harvest.”