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Definition of Efforce
1. v. t. To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
Definition of Efforce
1. Verb. (obsolete reflexive) To force oneself. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To force, force open; to acquire by force. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Efforce
1. to compel [v EFFORCED, EFFORCING, EFFORCES] - See also: compel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Efforce
Literary usage of Efforce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"... "session of sweet, silent thought," we should take no care, we should not
efforce ourselves, to borrow a French word, as to what we are to say or write, ..."
2. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1843)
"By the restoration of the original weight of his body, the man collects again a
sum efforce which allows him, next day, to produce, without exhaustion, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... place its longest dimension parallel to the lines efforce.1 This is the general
effect of the influence of form in the case of strongly magnetic bodies, ..."
4. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects by David Hume (1758)
"... and call upal! our pO'.vcr; this up of force ; to inanimate matter, which is
net gives us the idea efforce, and power. 'Tis this capable of this ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"... then this recognisance to be void, otherwise efforce. Acknowledged before me,
turn of pounds each before me, the undersigned justice, on JPE Warrant to ..."
6. Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of by Gidon Gottlieb (1993)
"The events in Iraqi Kurdistan and in Bosnia have revived the debate over the
legitimacy of the use efforce to assist civilian populations and to promote ..."
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