forceable (forsabl)

[ Since in humane lawes there be more things arbitrable than forceable , he [Trajan] should advise his Judges to approach more unto reason than opinion. Letters of Sir Antonie of Guerrara (trans. 1577), p. 20. forced (först), p . a. [Pp. of forcel , v.] 1. Effected by an unusual application of force or effort. He travelled by forced journeys, frequently changing his jaded horses. Irving , Granada, p. 50. If there were no other phenomena of will than those of forced attention, it would be nece ary to admit the probability that all the mental activities are purely mechanical and absolutely dependent upon the action of the nervous system under the exciting influences of stimuli. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 539. 2. Overstrained; unnatural; affected; artificial. Whether or no the city of Clazomene might extend acro any part of the high ground, so as that an island or two in that bay might be said to lie opposite to it, is very uncertain, and rather too forced an interpretation of Strabo. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 41. The joy a umed, while sorrow dimm'd the eyes, The forced sad smiles that follow'd sudden sighs. Crabbe , Works, I. 49.