Definition of "impelled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of impel. (verb)

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• "AFTER a long interval, I am again impelled by the restless spirit within me to continue my narration; but I must alter the mode which I have hitherto adopted."
• "Yet, when she rose from the table, an urgent desire to keep him within call impelled her to pause."
• "On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view."