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FORCIBLE, a.

1. Powerful; strong; mighty; as a punishment forcible to bridle sin.

2. Violent; impetuous; driving forward with force; as a forcible stream.

3. Efficacious; active; powerful.

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances when broken.

4. Powerful; acting with force; impressive; as forcible words or arguments.

5. Containing force; acting by violence; as forcible means.

6. Done by force; suffered by force. The abdication of James, his advocates hold to have been forcible.

7. Valid; binding; obligatory. [Not used.]

8. In law, forcible entry is an actual violent entry into houses or lands.

Forcible detainer, is a violent withholding of the lands, &c. of another from his possession.

Forcible abduction, is the act of taking away wrongfully, as a child without the consent of the father, a ward without the consent of the guardian, or any person contrary to his or her will.
1913 Definition
Forcible (forcible)
a.(?)
For"ci*ble
[Cf. OF. forcible forcible, forceable that may be forced.]
  1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.

    How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2(?).

    Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon.

    But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak.

    That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker.

    He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. )

  2. Violent; impetuous.

    Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. Prior.

  3. 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. Swift.

    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.

    Syn. -- Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty; impressive; cogent; influential.


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