transitive. To pursue or continue (an affair, a course of action, etc.) to its completion; (chiefly Scottish) to pursue (a suit or claim) in a court…

transitive. To lay stress upon, press home, urge. Obsolete. Also, To enforce (a law, etc.).

To compel the observance of (a law); to support by force (a claim, demand, obligation).

in force: operative or binding at the time. Also, in full force, †in his force. So to put in force, to enforce; to come into force (also †to take f…