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Compulsory   /kəmpˈəlsəri/   Listen
adjective
Compulsory  adj.  
1.
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
2.
Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion. "This contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory."






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"Compulsory" Quotes from Famous Books



... to witness everything. Sexual morality often comes to have no meaning to them. Incest is so familiar as hardly to call for remark. The bitter poverty of the poor compels them to leave their children half fed. There are few more grotesque pictures in the history of civilisation than that of the compulsory attendance of children at school, faint with hunger because they had no breakfast, and not sure whether they would even secure a dry crust for dinner when their morning's quantum of education had been duly imparted. Children thus ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... has made an attempt in this character to draw a picture of what is too often seen, a wretched being whose heart becomes hardened and spited at the world, in which she is doomed to experience much misery and little sympathy. The system of compulsory charity by poor's rates, of which the absolute necessity can hardly be questioned, has connected with it on both sides some of the most odious and malevolent feelings that can agitate humanity. The quality of true charity is not strained. Like that of mercy, of which, in a large sense, ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... in the following states making humane education compulsory in the public schools: Maine, Washington, California, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Idaho, Montana, Texas, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Utah, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, and New York. Many testimonials ...
— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy

... complete expulsion of the Jesuits from the country. By a certain named date, and within a month, every Jesuit must have left the King's dominions, or else must take the risk of a year's imprisonment followed by compulsory banishment. ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... Hallam's Supplement to Europe during the Middle Ages, p. l33, and in Motley's Dutch Republic, Vol. I. pp. 32, 33, various causes mentioned for voluntary and compulsory servitude in the early European times. See also ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various


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