compellation
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Latin compellātiōnem (“act of addressing”) + English -ion (suffix indicating the result of an action or process). Compellātiōnem is the accusative singular of compellātiō (“a rebuke, reprimand, reproof”), from compellō (“to compel; to urge; to drive together”) (from com- (prefix indicating a bringing together of several things) + pellō (“to drive, impel; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach; to drive; to strike; to thrust”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Compare appellation.
Definitions
An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
- What are the parts of this prayer [the Lord's Prayer]? They are three. 1. A Preface of compellation for entrance into prayer, in the firſt words, Our Father which art in heaven, &c.
A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified
A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.
- Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.
- Son of David, O Lord thou ſon of David:] In this compellation, conſider why Chriſt is called the ſon of David, never the ſon of Adam, never the ſon of Abraham?
- The common Compellation of the Scottiſh Kings, was Dominus Rex, and ſometimes Illuſtriſſimus Dominus Ligeus, and about K. James III's time, Metuendiſſimus.
An act of addressing or speaking to someone
An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.
- Is it not the Voice of my Beloved [Jesus]? Do I not hear him, with the most inſinuating Compellations, inviting me to his Table, bidding me to come, for all Things are ready; [...]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA