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enˈforced, ppl. a.|ɛnˈfɔəst|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. That is subjected to force or constraint. rare.
1654R. Codrington tr. Hist. Ivstine 74 This concurse..of the water doth take down with it into the bottom of the deeps the enforced spirit, and there suffocates and keeps it down, etc. 1861Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxlvi. 134 They pleaded themselves enforced agents.
2. That is forced upon or exacted from a person; that is produced by force; forced, constrained.
1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 203 He hath constrayned such to yeelde to inforced obedience and servitude. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. v. 9 Gastly Lookes Are at my seruice, like enforced Smiles. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v. x. 364 The slavery of an inforced marriage. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 128 A country where a degraded class is held to enforced labour. 1868Helps Realmah v. 68 How Sir John could have endured the enforced silence. |