English

Adverb

coercibly ‎(comparative more coercibly, superlative most coercibly)

1. (uncommon, possibly erroneous) Coercively; in a way that is coercive; by coercion.
   • 1980, The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies (ISBN 0878557520);

     As an instrument of economic warfare, then, the "oil weapon" can be defined as the ability credibly to threaten to withhold the supply of oil from certain oil-importing nations in order coercibly to effect a change in their political stance.

   • 1997 May 12, Roger Poehlmann (name), "Roger/Michelle Poehlmann" (username), "Re: Roger's earth-shattering rebuttal of Lifton's criteria", in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, Usenet:

     I would sooner consider that a cult since my taxes are coercibly taken from me, while my contributions to the ICC are voluntary.

   • 2013, Denis Guénoun, About Europe: Philosophical Hypotheses (ISBN 0804785589), page 218:

     […] the vast and heavy communitarianism that seems to have regulated the immobile mechanics of oriental empires, or hordes, or Aztecs, not to mention Stalin, no doubt, with his “oriental” communist despotism enforcing commonality coercibly.

2. (rare, possibly erroneous) As a result of coercion; having been coerced; in a coerced manner.
   • 1960, The National Underwriter, volume 64, page 161:

     Industry will meet this obligation either voluntarily or coercibly through taxes.

   • 1995, Jack Martin Balcer, The Persian Conquest of the Greeks, 545-450 B.C., page 152:

     Had the Persians, however, not transported those Paionians farther east, we must consider that hundreds of other Skudrians had also entered Asia and traveled to Parsa, either freely or coercibly.

Quotations

• 1883, Louisa Lowe, The Bastilles of England: Or, the Lunacy Laws at Work:

  […] at least be a shield from molestation in all opinions and practices consonant thereto, and let it be made highly penal for medical men or lunacy commissioners to adjudge coercibly insane any views or any actions sanctioned by Scripture.

• 2000, Andi Faisal Bakti, Good governance and conflict resolution in Indonesia:

  a large number of Chinese were brought as coolies from overseas, first seductively then coercibly, by the Dutch at the beginning of their colonization

Related terms

• coercively