1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vi. 138 Yf ye wyll parforce yourselfe a lityll, this paynymes shall not holde afore vs.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xix. 71 She parforseth hyr self, wyth hir grete teeth to ete the rotes vnder the grounde.

?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Rij ^v Yf God..gyue me good fortune I shall perforce me to make it hole complete.

1509 in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 442 The kynge..wyl not in no wyse be perforsyd forto confyrme the sayed maryaje.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 652/2 I parforce a man, I constrayne hym to do a thyng.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) ccxii. 17 When other runne, perforcyd I am to crepe.

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 141 And, rather then they should not die by force, Or want a Want-grace to performe the Deede, Their Vncle and Protector must perforce Their Crown from Head, and Head from Life divorce.

1913 G. D. Herron in Metropolitan Sept. 37/2 Every uplifting light or law perforces, in the place of the evolution that is blind and chanceful, an evolution that is chosen and humanly directed.

1978 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 47 188 The unity and diversity of life perforces us to not allow or restrict the natural development of individual life.

2000 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 3 July 14 Only disconnection or its imminency perforces them to pay up.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8040 xv þousinde [paiens], þat hadden born oȝan Par-fors into Bedingham.

c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) 355 Par force [v.r. With strengthe], he dhadde [read hadde] me forht inome.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 2529 (MED) Abouten hij gonnen goo, Par force smyten in to þe þrenge And dudden beestes from oþere derenge.

a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 6021 Ȝef þou him myȝt par force [c1400 Laud by force] aquelle, His folk wolen don þy wille.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxiii. f. lix They encountred the sayde people y^t caryed the sayd Treasoure and stuffe, & parforce toke it from the knyghtes.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxx^v It..draweth out the secondine parforce.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 111 When as shee was fully determined to pine her selfe to death: hee caused her mouth perforce to bee opened, and meate to be crammed into her throate.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 110 Unless such Ships of force were to go thither and Trade per force.

1782 H. More Daniel v. 108 Who could foresee that Daniel would perforce Oppose the King's decree?

1843 H. W. Herbert Marmaduke Wyvil xxxi. 177 The messenger..made his way per force to Wyvil's antechamber.

?1865 T. W. Robertson Robinson Crusoe 68 Emancipate that black I will—per force.

c1425 in Mediaeval Stud. (1955) 17 229 (MED) For a man schulde lene to an other and ese him onliche for Goddes loue, and þen perforce God wole ȝeue him endeles mede.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 237^v By this craftie meanes he constreigned Caesar in maner parforce to geue hym perdone.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 127 Flouds of teares flowe in theyr stead perforse.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 115 The Papal party did struggle for a time, till at last they were patient per-force.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xix. 231 Twelve days the wind continued at North, Which kept the Fleet perforce within the Bay.

1748 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 109 I went, perforce, into the main street.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. x. 141 He paused perforce—and blew his horn.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxv. 606 The reader must perforce, on that one point, make his own inferences.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables i. 8 This had been done without her advice being asked, and must perforce be disapproved.

1994 Harper's June 47/2 Many blacks now speak with an almost perverse longing of the good old days of legal apartheid, when the black community was, perforce, self-reliant and self-governing.

1714 S. Croxall Another Original Canto Spencer 9 A foul Uprore Of starveling Wretches linked, that whilere Had dight themselves with iron Bolts full sore, And now constrain'd perforce of cursed Faction's Lore.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Let. to D. Stuart in Lett. (1895) 540 Periods..alarmingly long, perforce of their construction.

1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 167 Do they..so press in, perforce Of multitude?

a1909 G. C. Lodge Poems & Dramas (1911) xviii Whose lips, perforce of endless solitude, Were silent.

1998 Ld. R. Jacob in M. Andenas European Community Law in Eng. Courts xv. 214 (note) If ever the claim had come to trial there would have been a beautiful point about whether the gas inside the cylinder, perforce of the shape of the cylinder, was an infringing copy.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. ii. clxvi. [clxii.] 459 Nowe by perforce they cause the cardynalles to entre into conclaue, and to chuse a Pope.

1573–4 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 5 For..in perforce at thair awin handis taking of killyng furth of the boytis.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 154 And in thair perforce capitane Johne Borthwik..wes slane.

1815 S. T. Coleridge Let. 25 May (1959) IV. 569 Were I forced into exile, or if, without a perforce, I could take with me those whom I most love and regard, I should wish to pass my summers at Zurich.

1871 A. D. Whitney Real Folks (1872) iii. 89 With this backing, and the perforce of there being nobody else, young Dr. Ripwinkley had ten patients within the first week.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 3/1 Of perforce he is an authority on the subject.

1632 tr. Swedish Discipline iii. 78 The Stock-knights, be the Provosts or Perforces servants.

1643 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1819) VI. 47/1 With power to the said Colonell To nominat and appoynt..a perforce... The pay of the perforce to be monethlie 18 lib.

1650 R. Overton Orders for Govt. of Garrison & City of Edinb. in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1928) Apr. 161 The Captain of the Main-Guard..is hereby desired every night to send forth Pettrols about the Towne, for the apprehension of such as shall be found Guiltie in the premises; And that he commit every such Souldier so offending to the Perforce.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 96^v Which by so much the more is to be borne, by how much the more it is perforce.

1871 Overland Monthly Mar. 262/1 They are the perforce resources of a people living in a chronic state of expected war.

1895 J. Smith Permanent Message Exodus ix. 123 Here we have no perforce succumbing to an irresistible decree.