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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Coercive \Co*er"cive\, adjective Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- {Co*er"cive*ly}, adverb -- Co*er"cive*ness, noun
Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. --Bp. Warburton.
{Coercive force} or {Coercitive force} (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly depends on the molecular constitution of the metal. --Nichol.
The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force. --S. Thompson.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adjective
1: serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"
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