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Compulsitor. World English Historical Dictionary

Compulsitor. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2022. Compulsitor Sc. Law. [app. a corruption of an earlier compulsator, Sc. for compulsatory: see -OR, -ORY. The i is etymologically indefensible.] That which compels; a compulsatory instrument, act, or proceeding.

1 1816.  Scott, Antiq., xxxix. As a compulsitor … of payment we had first the letters of four forms.

2 1826.  Blackw. Mag., XX. 85. The King … reproached the Principal with pusillanimity in yielding to so slight a compulsitor.

3 1880.  Muirhead, trans. Instit. Gaius, IV. § 171. To restrain rash litigation … by the religious compulsitor of an oath.

4 1888.  Sc. Law Rev., in Law Times, LXXXV. 328/1. For the debtor … there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty.

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