a. also -ant. [ad. L. compellentem pr. pple. of compellĕre to COMPEL.] Compelling, constraining.
1847. Mrs. Browning, in Blackw. Mag., LXI. 555. Most full of invocation, and to be Most instantly compellant.
1873. R. Congreve, Ess. (1874), 480 The compellent contagion of great examples.
