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Enforce   /ɛnfˈɔrs/   Listen
verb
Enforce  v. t.  (past & past part. enforced; pres. part. enforcing)  
1.
To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. "Inward joy enforced my heart to smile."
2.
To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way."
3.
To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. "As swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings."
4.
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. "Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity."
5.
To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
6.
To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. "Enforce him with his envy to the people."


Enforce  v. i.  
1.
To attempt by force. (Obs.)
2.
To prove; to evince. (R.)
3.
To strengthen; to grow strong. (Obs.)


noun
Enforce  n.  Force; strength; power. (Obs.) "A petty enterprise of small enforce."





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"Enforce" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kirkcudbright men who had known the master from childhood, many of them, indeed, being older than he; they were mostly jealous of Paul, envious of the command he had attained to over them, and impatient under the discipline he was ever ready to inflict. 'Tis no light task to enforce obedience from those with whom one has birdnested. But, having more than once felt the weight of his hand, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... Henty never loses sight of the moral purpose of his work—to enforce the doctrine of courage and truth, mercy and loving kindness, as indispensable to the making of an English gentleman. British lads will read The Bravest of the Brave with pleasure and profit; of that we are ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
... the sound of the sea. Augustus and his brothers were duly impressed. If Gus really meant Augustus, why Augustus he would be henceforth. The Massa Captain had said it and what the Massa Captain said—went, especially when he gave a bright new dime to enforce the order. ...
— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... the object sought. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Ginn, now the World, Peace Foundation, and the American Peace Society, and later the Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the League to Enforce Peace, and many other organizations in America and in Europe were actively engaged in considering ways and means to prevent war, to strengthen the bonds of international good-will, and to insure the more general application of the ...
— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing
... marked the conduct of Marion with a keener eye; and discovering in him no symptoms that pointed to recantation, they furiously pressed the bishop to enforce against him the edict ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems


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