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Coercive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COERCIVE, a.
1. That has power to restrain, particularly by moral force, as of law or authority.
2. Compulsory; constraining; forcing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1600 serving or intended to coerce <coercive power> <coercive measures> • coercively adverb • coerciveness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coercive Co*er"cive, a. Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. --Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. --Nichol. The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force. --S. Thompson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coercive Co*er"cive, a. Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. --Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. --Nichol. The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force. --S. Thompson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Coercive measures are intended to force people to do something that they do not want to do. The eighteenth-century Admiralty had few coercive powers over its officers. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Coercing, checking, restraining, curbing, repressing, repressive. 2. Constraining, compelling, compulsory.