compulsory

[Com*pul·so*ry]

When something is compulsory, it is required or must be done. In most states, it's compulsory for kids to attend school (or an equivalent homeschool) from age six to seventeen.

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Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

Adjective S.
required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"


a.
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

a.
Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.


Compulsory

Com*pul"so*ry , a. [LL. compulsorius.] 1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion.
This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

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Usage Examples

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

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Other Usage Examples

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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