All 4 Uses of
compel
in
Oliver Twist
- So, they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they), of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it.†
Chpt 2 *
- The old crone tottered along the passages, and up the stairs, muttering some indistinct answers to the chidings of her companion; being at length compelled to pause for breath, she gave the light into her hand, and remained behind to follow as she might: while the more nimble superior made her way to the room where the sick woman lay.†
Chpt 24
- …a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochial…†
Chpt 27
- Oliver told them all his simple history, and was often compelled to stop, by pain and want of strength.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(compel) to force someone to do something
or more rarely:
to convince someone to do something