English Dictionary

compellation

/ˌkɒmpəˈleɪʃən/

noun

(archaic, rare) An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title. / (archaic, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.

The compellation of 'sir' was commonly used in medieval times.

意味（1）

(archaic, rare) An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.

What are the parts of this prayer [the Lord's Prayer]? They are three. 1. A Preface of compellation for entrance into prayer, in the firſt words, Our Father which art in heaven, &c.

意味（2）

(archaic, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.

Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.

意味（3）

(obsolete) An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.

[O]ne Cornet [George] Joyce a buſie pragmatical perſon, whom [Oliver] Cromwell his Familiar had tutored in the Method of Boldneſſe and Rebellion, was privately conferred with about it, and after ſome familiar compellations hugged into the Conſpiracy, and immediately diſpatched away with a party of 1000 Horſe on the 4. of June, to Holmby, …