coercive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite serving or intended to coerce
    • authority is directional instead of coercive

WordNet

Co*er"cive adjective
Definitions
  1. Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n.
    Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton.
    Nichol.
    The power of resisting magnetization or demagnization is sometimes called coercive force. S. Thompson.

Webster 1913