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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.: cf. F.

exacteur

One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.

Jer. Taylor.

Noun.

One who exacts; an officer who collects tribute, taxes or customs.

I will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Isa. 60.

An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.

He that demands by authority; as an exactor of oaths.

One who is unreasonably severe in his injunctions or demands.