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forcement|ˈfɔəsmənt|
[a. F. forcement f. force-r: see force v.1 and -ment.]
†1.
a. Strengthening; in quot. fig. encouragement.
b. concr. Something which strengthens; a fortification. Obs.
1382Wyclif Isa. xxv. 12 And the forsemens, or strengthis [Vulg. munimenta] of thin heȝe walles shul togidere falle, and be lowid. 1533Bellenden Livy v. (1822) 314 Thir wourdis gif..grete audacite and forcement to the Volschis.
†2. An act of deforcement: see deforcement 2.
1479Act. Dom. Conc. (1839) 33 Vnlawis of grenewod, mureburne, forsmentis.
†3. Compulsion; also, a compelling motive.
1524Pace Let. Hen. VIII in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xi. 20 Without great forcement to go bolt upright, wee could not avoide to fal down headlyng. 1541Cranmer in St. Papers (1836) I. 691 Al that Derame did unto her was of his importune forcement. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. xi. (1593) 266 Thine owne renowme, thy grandsire Jove are forcements thereunto. 1607Dekker Hist. Sir T. Wyatt Wks. 1873 III. 122 It was impos'd vpon vs by constraint..And will you count such forcement treacherie? 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. (1865) 24 They have seene a Deare leape three score feet at little or no forcement.
4. Gunnery. (See quot.)
1892Field 10 Dec. 915/2 Neither the diameter of the chamber nor the ‘forcement’ of the projectiles has any primary influence on the recoil. note, This is a French word, for which we have no English equivalent..it has, however, been Anglicised, and is now generally used in gunnery treatises. Its signification is the excess of diameter of the projectile over that of the bore. |