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To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. [Colloq.]

• Compellatory
  Serving to compel; compulsory.
• Colloquial
  Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• Forcible-feeble
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
• Serviceable
  Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
• Colloquialism
  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
• Forcibleness
  The quality of being forcible.
• Serviceage
  Servitude.
• Colloquialize
  To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
• FORCIBLEFEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review.
• Colloquist
  A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.
• SERVICESERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible,
• Colloquies
  of Colloquy

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