compellation

noun3

1. •
   (no longer used, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.

   • Like that of the Thrush and Swallow in Aesope, Insteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling stooles at one anothers heads. — 1624
2. •
   (no longer used, rare) An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.

   • What are the parts of this prayer [the Lord's Prayer]? They are three. 1. A Preface of compellation for entrance into prayer, in the first words, Our Father which art in heaven, &c. — 1645
3. •
   (no longer used) An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.

   • Is it not the Voice of my Beloved [Jesus]? Do I not hear him, with the most insinuating Compellations, inviting me to his Table, bidding me to come, for all Things are ready; [...] — 1743