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Exercising force or restraint; enforced.
Such ideas were held here, almost as generally as you say they now are on Earth, some twelve thousand years ago, and twenty thousand years ago their profession was compulsory. - "Across the Zodiac", Percy Greg.
Five other States reform their divorce laws, and four their laws concerning married women's property, and seventeen adopt new laws for compulsory support of the woman and children by the husband.	- "Popular Law-making", Frederic Jesup Stimson.
Of course, it was not compulsory to do so, but they all did, because they felt that any man who omitted to contribute might be 'marked'.	- "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", Robert Tressell.