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Definition of Compellation
1. n. Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
Definition of Compellation
1. Noun. The act of directing oneself directly to another. ¹
2. Noun. A designation, identifying name or title. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Compellation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compellation
Literary usage of Compellation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1836)
"That of Son of God, was so familiar a compellation of the Messiah, who was then
so much expected and talked of, that the Humans it seems, who lived amongst ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"And a fair precedent of it we have from the compellation given to Our blessed
... this name may also be intimated as a distinctive compellation of a bishop ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"A compellation indeed, which is offensive and indecent and culpable, but whither
the giving any person that compellation, is a malicious, ..."
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