Definition for CO-ERCE'

CO-ERCE', v.t. [coers'; L. coerceo; con and arceo, to drive or press.]

  1. To restrain by force; to keep from acting, or transgressing, particularly by moral force, as by law or authority; to repress. – Ayliffe.
  2. To compel; to constrain. These causes … coerced by those which preceded and coercing those which followed. – Dwight. Theol.

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