What does "compulsatory" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "compulsatory"?

Common synonyms include: compulsive, compulsory, compulsory, driving, imperative, imperious.

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Adjective

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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: ..."

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

Latin compulsāt- (perfect passive participial stem of the Latin compulsō) + English -ory

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