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Webster 1913 Edition


Efforce

Ef-force

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Efforced
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Efforcing
.]
[OF.
esforcier
(F.
s’efforcer
to exert one's self), LL.
exforciare
; L.
ex
+
fortis
strong. See
Force
.]
To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Efforce

EFFO'RCE

, v.t.
1.
To force; to break through by violence.
2.
To force; to ravish.
3.
To strain; to exert with effort.
[This word is now rarely used; perhaps never, except in poetry. We now use force.]

Definition 2024


efforce

efforce

See also: efforcé

English

Verb

efforce (third-person singular simple present efforces, present participle efforcing, simple past and past participle efforced)

  1. (obsolete, reflexive) To force oneself.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To force, force open; to acquire by force.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      huge great yron chests and coffers strong, / All bard with double bends, that none could weene / Them to efforce by violence or wrong [...].

French

Verb

efforce

  1. first-person singular present indicative of efforcer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of efforcer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of efforcer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of efforcer
  5. second-person singular imperative of efforcer