compellation — İngilizce Sözlük

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1. An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.

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   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.

2. A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.

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   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.

   Son of David, O Lord thou ſon of David:] In this compellation, conſider why Chriſt is called the ſon of David, never the ſon of Adam, never the ſon of Abraham?

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   The common Compellation of the Scottiſh Kings, was Dominus Rex, and ſometimes Illuſtriſſimus Dominus Ligeus, and about K. James III's time, Metuendiſſimus.

   [H]earing from Lady Bellaſton, that Mr. Weſtern was arrived in Town, ſhe went to pay her Duty to him, at his Lodgings in Piccadilly, when ſhe was received with many ſcurvy Compellations too coarſe to be repeated, and was even threatned to be kicked out of Doors.

   Creatures of clay!] Nothing could have been more appoſitely imagined than this compellation.

   The name of the Lord's Supper is given to it by St Paul in his Epiſtle to the Corinthians. The other name (the Communion) is likewiſe a compellation which St Paul has given of this holy rite.

   It is a cheap species of wit to call a fearful man Mr. Timid, or a passionate one Sir Furious Frenzy, or a languishing love sick girl Miss Wanton. Such compellations destroy, in some degree, the effect of character, by awakening an anticipation of what it is to be.

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

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   [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, [...]

   Is it not the Voice of my Beloved [Jesus]? Do I not hear him, with the most inſinuating Compellations, inviting me to his Table, bidding me to come, for all Things are ready; [...]

   It is drummers and the musician's instrumental compellations, it is those who are adorned with beautiful and vibrant colors of clothing, it is the magnificent and well-crafted jewelry, and the developmental commitment to a spiritual relationship with God, which I believe are evidences of what I call, "The African/ethnic connection," within my experience and personal context.