Past tense of 'compulse'; forced or compelled to act.
Regular past tense formation from 'compulse' by adding '-ed,' following standard English verb conjugation patterns.
You rarely see 'compulsed' in modern English because 'compel' and 'compelled' have displaced it, but finding it in old texts proves people once used it as naturally as we use 'compelled' today.
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