† coactedadj.
Obsolete.
Compelled, enforced, compulsory.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > done, produced, or obtained by compulsion
threata1400
constraintc1430
compelled1541
compulsed1541
violent?1550
extorted1552
wrested1565
coacted1570
enforced1576
forced1576
compulsory1581
commandeda1586
coactive1596
infortiate1601
extortious1602
coact1610
compulsive1611
exacted1618
necessitous1632
violented1641
necessary1655
on-forced1656
commandatorya1659
extorsive1669
compellable1677
compulsatory1748
obbligato1780
coerced1877
mandatory1891
shotgun1937
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 43/1 Both men and women kepe through coacted vowes from Mariage.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 18 Be [= by] coacted consent of the captive Queyne.
1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas v. 72 He professed his obedience, and that not..a coacted one.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 242 Thinking her self free from that uncomely kinde of co-acted marriage.
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