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† enˈforcive, a. Obs.
[f. enforce v. + -ive.]
1. a. Tending to enforce. b. Urgent, forcible.
1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 83 b With these and such like inforciue arguments the harts of his souldiors were greatly incouraged. c1611Chapman Iliad viii. 212 [An eagle] who seasde in her repayre A sucking hind calfe, which she trust in her enforciue seeres. Ibid. x. 128 Why stir ye thus so late? Sustain we such enforcive cause? 1693Beverley True St. Gospel Truth 6 Those Attributes of God, that are most enforcive of a gracious Answer.
2. As quasi-n. (nonce-use), after the analogy of motive: A means of compelling.
1686A. Horneck Crucified Jesus (1695) 373 If these Motives cannot prevail, God hath Enforcives which shall.
Hence † enˈforcively adv., by compulsion.
1880Webster cites Marston. |