0 to make someone feel that they must do something:
1 to force someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] When I see them eating, I feel impelled to eat, too.
His thirst for public respect was insatiable; for him, honor, more than interest, impelled men's actions.
Moreover, the juridical applicability of welfare assessments impels extra scientific caution in order to avoid conclusive - and meaningful - results.
Sometimes it merely impels arguments that finesse real dilemmas by appeal to utopian values.
And it is not unreasonable to think that interdisciplinary scholarship might impel them.
One might ask what impels this interest in language forgetting.
Descartes here means that an agent is indifferent in his peculiar sense when their will is not impelled by any reason for acting.
The stance of ironic detachment gives way to a violence that impels a sense of commitment.
But what would impel a biological visual system to pose, let alone solve such a problem?