单词 | adact |
释义 | † adactv. Obsolete. transitive. To drive or compel. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] needeOE straita1340 pressa1393 afforcea1400 stressa1400 coactc1400 coarctc1400 strainc1400 compulse?a1475 cohert1475 oppress1523 compel1526 forcec1540 to tie to the stake1544 urge1576 adact1615 duressa1626 coerce1659 railroad1889 to twist the tail1895 steamroll1900 steamroller1912 shanghai1919 bulldozer1945 shotguna1961 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). < v.1615 |
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