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compulsion (1308-09)
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compulsion (1308-09)

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compulcion,  compulsioun  
  FEW:  compulsare 2/ii,991b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  compulsion 9,142c TL: compulsïon 6,640 DEAF:  compulsïon  DMF:  compulsion  TLF:  compulsion  OED:  compulsion n.  MED:  compulsion n.  DMLBS:  compulsio 413b

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compulsion, force: 
( 1308-09 )  le Viscunte par compulsion e greveuses destresces fet les tenauns […] presenter devant ly […]  Rot Parl1 i 279
( 1361 )  et les sumetons a la jurisdiction, contreint et compulsion de tous juges et cours seculaires et de sainte eglise  Lett Rois 145
( 1382 )  toutes feoffementz faitz […] par compulsion & manace  Stats ii 20 vi
( 1399 )  par compulcion, batries, manasses  Rot Parl1 iii 442
faire compulsion
to compel, force: 
( 1341 )  faire compulsion par censures de seint eglise pur le peché, de faire restitucion des usures  Stats i 296 v
♦to use force: 
( 1340 )  il ad entré nostre franchise et fait compulsion  YBB 14-15 Ed III 97
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