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Definition of Exactors
1. exactor [n] - See also: exactor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exactors
Literary usage of Exactors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1866)
"And the exactors of the people went out, and their directors, ... And the exactors
pressed them, saying, Fulfil your works, the matter of a day in his day, ..."
2. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedenborg Foundation (1878)
"And the exactors of the people went forth, and their moderators, ... And the
exactors were urgent, signifies that they who proximately infested were instant ..."
3. Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone by John William Colenso (1873)
"And Pharaoh commanded on that day the exactors among the people and its ...
10 And the exactors of the people and its officers went-forth and said unto the ..."
4. Thoughts on Finance and Colonies by Samuel B. Williams (1846)
"It is the duty of the Executive to exact from individuals what is due, neither
more nor less; and especially to employ exactors worthy of confidence ..."
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