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extorted, ppl. a.|ɛkˈstɔːtɪd|
[f. extort v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb. Cf. extort ppl. a.
1552Huloet, Extorted, compilatus. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 18 With extorted powre and borrow'd strength. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 105 Are my Chests filled vp with extorted Gold? 1632Lithgow Trav. V. 206 Weary and extorted Trauellers. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 136 These extorted complaints. 1784Cowper Task iv. 403 Live without extorted alms From grudging hands. 1826Scott Woodst. xv, An extorted promise of silence. 1865Hook Lives Abps. III. vii. 449 The rack-extorted admissions of the persecuted Templars.
†b. Strained, forced. Obs.
1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1666) 10 How extorted and unnatural are the derivations of the Allumæotæ from Almodad, of the Manitæ from Abimail, etc.
Hence † exˈtortedly adv., by extortion.
1640Ld. Digby Sp. Trienn. Parl. (1641) 14 A King that had..given all the Rights and Liberties of his Subjects a more cleare and ample confirmation freely and gratiously, then all his Predecessors..extortedly. |