Part 2073

<hw>Co`e*qual"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.</def>

<h1>Coequally</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*e"qual*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With coequality.</def>

<h1>Coerce</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*erce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coerced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coercing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>co\'89rcere</ets>; <ets>co-</ets> + <ets>arcere</ets> to shut up, to press together. See <er>Ark</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<blockquote>Punishments are manifold, that they may <b>coerce</b> this profligate sort. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To compel or constrain to any action; <as>as, to <ex>coerce</ex> a man to vote for a certain candidate</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To compel or enforce; <as>as, to <ex>coerce</ex> obedience</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To <er>Coerce</er>, <er>Compel</er>.</syn> <usage> To <i>compel</i> denotes to urge on by force which cannot be resisted. The term aplies equally to physical and moral force; as, <i>compelled</i> by hunger; <i>compelled</i> adverse circumstances; <i>compelled</i> by parental affection. <i>Coerce</i> had at first only the negative sense of checking or restraining by force; as, to <i>coerce</i> a bad man by punishments or a prisoner with fetters. It has now gained a positive sense., viz., that of driving a person into the performance of some act which is required of him by another; as, to <i>coerce</i> a man to sign a contract; to <i>coerce</i> obedience. In this sense (which is now the prevailing one), <i>coerce</i> differs but little from <i>compel</i>, and yet there is a distinction between them. <i>Coercion</i> is usually acomplished by indirect means, as threats and intimidation, physical force being more rarely employed in <i>coercing</i>.</usage>

<h1>Coercible</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co"er"ci*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being coerced.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Co*er"ci*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Coercion</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*er"cion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>coercio</ets>, fr. <ets>coercere</ets>. See <er>Coerce</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of coercing.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.</def>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<h1>Coercitive</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*er"ci*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Coercive.</def> "<i>Coercitive</i> power in laws."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Coercive</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Co*er"cive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Co*er"cive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- Co*er"cive*ness, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote><b>Coercive</b> power can only influence us to outward practice. <i>Bp. Warburton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Coercive</col> &or; <col>Coercitive force</col></mcol> <fld>(Magnetism)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<i>Nichol.</i>

<blockquote>The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called <b>coercive force</b>. <i>S. Thompson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>C\'d2rulignone</h1> <Xpage=273>