ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. That is subjected to force or constraint. rare.
1654. R. Codrington, trans. Ivstine’s Hist., 74. This concurse and wrastling of the water doth take down with it into the bottom of the deeps the enforced spirit, and there suffocates and keeps it down [etc.].
1861. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxlvi. 134. They pleaded themselves enforced agents.
2. That is forced upon or exacted from a person; that is produced by force; forced, constrained.
1576. Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 203. He hath constrayned such to yeelde to inforced obedience and servitude.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., III. v. 9. Gastly Lookes Are at my seruice, like enforced Smiles.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, V. x. 364. The slavery of an inforced marriage.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., II. 128. A country where a degraded class is held to enforced labour.
1868. Helps, Realmah, v. 68. How Sir John could have endured the enforced silence.
