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▪ I. † coact, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. coact-us, pa. pple. of coagĕre, cōgĕre; see next.]
Compelled, constrained, forced. a. of persons.
c1430Lydg. Bochas iii. vii. (1554) 79 a, They were coacte after peace to seke. 1487Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 263 Not coact nor constrayned.
b. of things: Done under compulsion, forced.
1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 119 The society ought not to be coact but voluntarie. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 85 For the conversion of these..seemeth to be coact.
Hence † coactly adv.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 166 b, Mans will..worketh voluntaryly, not coactly.
▪ II. coact, v.|kəʊˈækt|
[f. L. coact- ppl. stem of coagĕre, cōgĕre to drive together, collect, contract, compel; or, in pa. pple., f. prec. + -ed.]
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a. trans. To compel, constrain, force, coerce. Obs. exc. as in b.
Orig. used only in pa. pple. = coact ppl. a. i.
c1400Test. Love iii. (1560) 295/1 Neyther is coacted ne constrayned. 1494Fabyan v. cxl. 124 They lost the field, and were coactyd to flee. 1570Diurn. Occur. (1833) 189 Vncompellit or coactit be ony manner of persone. 1651Raleigh's Ghost 242 Vertue coacted and forced, is not vertue.
b. To exercise control upon.
1855Ess. Intuitive Morals 95 As this supersensible world is the background and substans of the phenomenal world, whose laws..it coacts.
†2. To restrain, confine. Obs. rare.
c1520State Lett. in Burnet Hist. Ref. II. 90 Not limited and coacted within any such bounds. 1529Lyndesay Compl. Lyndesay 163 Ȝe sall to no man be coactit.
†3. To draw together, contract; to collect, concentrate. Obs. rare.
1578Banister Hist. Man iv. 54 [The muscles] coact, and make straite the brest strongly. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 44 The virtue of the earth coacted into one plant.
II. [f. co- + act v.]
†4. To enact together with others. Obs. rare.
1588Allen Admon. 4 She enforced vniust lawes, partly made by her supposed father..and partely coacted by herself and her complices.
5. intr. To act together. rare.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 118 If I tell how these two did coact. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 700/1 A device consisting of two parts which coäct to give to the piece swaged between them the desired form. |