com·pel /kəm-'pel/ vt com·pelled, com·pel·ling: to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure and esp. by authority or law
cannot compel the defendant to testify
the result...is compelled by, the original understanding of the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause — R. H. Bork
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.