extortedadj.
/ɛkˈstɔːtɪd/ a. In senses of the verb. Cf. extort adj.
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adjective] > taken by extortion
extorted1552
wrested1565
extortious1602
abstorted1658
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
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Extorted, compilatus.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F8v With extorted powre, and borrow'd strength.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 105 Are my Chests fill'd vp with extorted Gold? View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. V. 206 Weary and extorted Trauellers.
1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 195 These extorted complaints.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 403 Live without extorted alms From grudging hands.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. iii. 70 An extorted promise of silence.
1865 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. III. vii. 449 The rack-extorted admissions of the persecuted Templars.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [adjective]
corruptc1386
racked1546
detorted?1550
wrested1551
writhen1551
writhed1562
forced1583
tortured1603
strained1609
distorted1641
violented1641
crook1647
extorted1652
refracted1655
madly wrested1656
wry1663
corrupted1699
non-natural1844
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. B6 How extorted and unnaturall are the derivations of the Allumæotæ from Almodad, of the Manitæ from Abimail, [etc.].
Derivatives
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [adverb]
extortiouslya1535
extortedly1640
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adverb] > under compulsion
forcedly1548
constrainedly1549
enforcedly1579
coactly1581
compelledly1590
inforcively1604
compulsively1628
extortedly1640
compulsatively1844
1640 Ld. J. Digby Speech Triennial 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.
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