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compellans

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Latin

Etymology

Present participle of compellō

Participle

compellāns (genitive compellantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. Driving, bringing, moving, impelling, inciting, urging, compelling, forcing, constraining to something
  2. Without implying reproach, to accost, address (mostly poetic)
  3. In a hostile sense, addressing one reproachfully or abusively, reproaching, chiding, rebuking, upbraiding, abusing, taking to task, calling to account
  4. speaking to, calling upon
  5. appealing to
  6. challenging
  7. accusing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

1When used purely as an adjective.

References

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