Obs. [f. the vb.] The action of the vb. EXTORT; extortion, torture.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., lxxxviii. 165. Ye are sure … to get ought by your extort, Or get or kepe ought.
1541. Sch.-house Women, 556, in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 126. They meane it a nother way, And say, she is mans vtter extort.
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. v. 103/42. Albee such mayne extort scorns to be pent, In the clay walles of thatched Tenement. [But possibly ‘mayne extort’ = extort power: see EXTORT ppl. a.]
