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adjective

Forcible adj.

Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. "How forcible are right words!" "Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken." "But I have reasons strong and forcible." "That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin." "He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented."

Violent; impetuous. "Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined."

Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. "In embraces of King James... forcible and unjust."

Forcible entry and detainer (Law), the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter.

Synonyms: Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty; impressive; cogent; influential.

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... of Derar, with the Arabian women who had enlisted in this holy war, who were accustomed to wield the bow and the lance, and who in a moment of captivity had defended, against the uncircumcised ravishers, their chastity and religion. [75] The exhortation of the generals was brief and forcible: "Paradise is before you, the devil and hell-fire in your rear." Yet such was the weight of the Roman cavalry, that the right wing of the Arabs was broken and separated from the main body. Thrice did ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... been slammed three times in one evening by one man, the last slam being so forcible as to shake two bottles from the shelf and to crack the door itself, he became positive that his suspicions were correct, and so was very careful to smile and take it as a joke. Finally, wearied by his vain efforts to keep it open and fearing ...

— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford

... and rubbed six minutes,—again to be scraped together four minutes and forcibly rubbed six; once more scraped together for four minutes, when the last third of the hundred grains of sugar of milk is to be added and mingled by stirring with the spatula; six minutes of forcible rubbing, four of scraping together, and six more (positively the last six) of rubbing, finish this part ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... hadn't been for Decker and some fellow we haven't had a chance to make out yet the bottom of the market would have been resting on the roof of the lower regions." The little man's remark was slightly more direct and forcible, but this will ...

— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... been little acted on, and no Government at the present day could venture to use them, though they have never been repealed. The fleet sent against the Russians in 1855 was the first English fleet ever manned without recourse to forcible impressment: see the article 'Impressment' by David Hannay, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1910. The work by J. B. Hutchinson entitled The Press-gang Afloat and Ashore (London: Nash, 1913) gives copious details of ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

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