compulsatory

comparative more compulsatory · superlative most compulsatory

1. Enforced by or resulting from compulsion; employing force or constraint; compulsory.

   But to recover of us, by strong hand / And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands / So by his father lost: ...

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

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   Shall I patiently await the return of the guard destined to seize Father Brazilio, destined to conduct him a prisoner to Rome, and likewise destined to obtain the packet once written by Father Luitfrido, and deposited by him in the hands of the Abbot of St. Romuald, and which the absolution of a compulsatory vow no longer rendered sacred?

   1810, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Di Montranzo