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Definition of Impelled
1. Adjective. Urged or forced to action through moral pressure. "Felt impelled to take a stand against the issue"
Definition of Impelled
1. Verb. (past of impel) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impelled
1. impel [v] - See also: impel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impelled
Literary usage of Impelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(b) "The Holy Ghost Himself, by His supernatural power, stirred up and impelled
the Biblical writers to write, and assisted them while writing in such a ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"were violently impelled against the Roman empire by an innumerable host of
Scythians, who appeared to issue from the frozen regions of tbe North.149 The ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"It impelled her to a decision. The scheme chiefly as a detail of foreign policy,
same night as she heard of the intention of and urged, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"... else has impelled the writer to discuss with so much earnestness and copiousness
the question of trephining in fractures of the cranial vault. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... who, impelled by certain events in Bremen, investigated the doctrine of the
Reformers with a view to determining how far the Trinitarian formula is a ..."
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