Forcible /(?)/

For·ci·ble

Forcible

a.
  1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
    How forcible are right words!
    — Job. vi. 2.
    Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.
    But I have reasons strong and forcible.
    That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.
    He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented.
    — Lowth (Transl. )
  2. Violent; impetuous.
    Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined.
  3. Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
    In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust.

Phrases & Compounds

Forcible entry and detainer
the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter.