Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-FORCE', v.t. [Fr. enforcir; en and force.]

1. To give strength to; to strengthen; to invigorate. [See Def. 5.]
2. To make or gain by force; to force; as, to enforce a passage.
3. To put in act by violence; to drive. Stones enforced from the old Assyrian slings. Shak.
4. To instigate; to urge on; to animate. Shak.
5. To urge with energy; to give force to; to impress on the mind; as, to enforce remarks or arguments.
6. To compel; to constrain; to force. Davies.
7. To put in execution; to cause to take effect; as, to enforce the laws.
8. To press with a charge. Shak.
9. To prove; to evince. [Little used.] Hooker.