impel

verb

Etymology: From Middle English impellen, borrowed from Latin impellō.

1. To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation.

   “She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.”

   “I feel impelled to reply to Roger Henry's letter about my article on being denied an apartment. I truly resent any insinuation that I "slunk back into that rotting old closet."”

2. To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.

   “The wind impelled the kayaks toward the shore.”