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To use force upon; to press hard upon. Also figurative to press hard upon, urge, with arguments, taunts, entreaties, etc. Obsolete.
intransitive in same sense: to enforce upon. Obsolete.
quasi-transitive. Also transitive. To subject to the methods of a filibuster.