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单词 adact
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adactv.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adact-, adigere.
Etymology: < classical Latin adact-, past participial stem of adigere to drive to, to force to submit to < ad- ad- prefix + agere to drive (see act v.).
Obsolete.
transitive. To drive or compel.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)]
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compulse?a1475
cohert1475
oppress1523
compel1526
forcec1540
to tie to the stake1544
urge1576
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duressa1626
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railroad1889
to twist the tail1895
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bulldozer1945
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1615 B. Robertson Blow for Pope sig. B5 He could not haue comported to heare himselfe so disgraced as it were, and contended against by those farre inferiour to the Apostles, and adacted to giue in his Apologie.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. ii. §5. 15 God himselfe once compelled the wicked Ægyptians, by flyes, and frogs..to confesse the power of his diuine Maiestie; not vouchsafing to adact them by any other of his creatures.
1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xvii. 204 Those subtiler particles of the Blood are adacted violently into the Pores of the tender parts of the Brain.
1844 Lady Lytton Mem. Muscovite III. iv. 76 Verily few would be addicted or even adacted to authorship, and still fewer to criticism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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