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  1. compulsatoryadjective

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

  2. Etymology: (perfect passive participial stem of the compulso) + -oryCategory:English words suffixed with -ory

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Compulsatorynoun

    Having the force of compelling; coactive.

    Etymology: from compulsor, Latin.

    Which is no other
    But to recover from us by strong hand,
    And terms compulsatory, those ’foresaid lands
    So by his father lost. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Compulsatoryadjective

    operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of compulsatory in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of compulsatory in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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