Exacted

Word EXACTED
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Definitions and meanings of "Exacted"

What do we mean by exacted?

To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

To make desirable or necessary.

To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

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The word "exacted" in example sentences

The retribution exacted from the Anti-Semite that day came in the form of a motherly chiding. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Mr. Harris is the only foreigner who was ever permitted to enter the palace of the Tycoon of Japan without the degrading forms of submission formerly exacted from the Dutch. ❋ Various (N/A)

September 4th Pétion's secretary came to the Tower to remit to the king a sum of two thousand francs in assignats; he exacted from the king a receipt. ❋ Cl (1912)

She could not make head or tail of "the party of the first part" and the terms exacted of movie actors. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

The tithe exacted from the Irish Catholic farmer was not merely a tribute exacted by the conqueror, but was also a brand of degradation on the faith and on the nationality of the Irish Celt who was called upon to meet the demand. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1898)

As the price of continued war on France, these lands and a subsidy of three million pounds were the terms exacted from Great Britain. ❋ William Milligan Sloane (1889)

In 1529 he besieged Vienna; and though he failed to capture the Hapsburg capital, yet at a still later period he exacted from the German Emperor ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

Madame de Meroul, who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

His new apparel somewhat shocked M. and Madame de Meroul who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted a certain amount of ceremonial even with their intimate friends. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

In one case, £30,000 was exacted from the city of York, Pennsylvania. ❋ Unknown (1863)

The vindictive spirit which the Parliament had shown against the Royalists and the Church disappeared in the terms exacted by the New Model; and the Army contented itself with the banishment of seven leading "delinquents," a general Act of Oblivion for the rest, the withdrawal of all coercive power from the clergy, the control of Parliament over the military and naval forces for ten years, and its nomination of the great officers of ❋ John Richard Green (1860)

Nothing now remained for him but to submit, with the best grace he could, to the terms exacted by his foes. ❋ Unknown (1841)

But this renunciation, which the Queen hath exacted from the French King and his grandson, I take to be armed with all the essential circumstances that can fortify such an act. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

A small quantity of corn was the only produce exacted from the earth; the use of orchards or artificial meadows was unknown to the Germans; nor can we expect any improvements in agriculture from a people, whose prosperity every year experienced a general change by a new division of the arable lands, and who, in that strange operation, avoided disputes, by suffering a great part of their territory to lie waste and without tillage. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The discretion of parents often suspended the baptism of their children till they could understand the obligations which they contracted: the severity of ancient bishops exacted from the new converts a novitiate of two or three years; and the catechumens themselves, from different motives of a temporal or a spiritual nature, were seldom impatient to assume the character of perfect and initiated ❋ Unknown (1206)

In the course of this history, we shall be too often summoned to explain the land tax, the capitation, and the heavy contributions of corn, wine, oil, and meat, which were exacted from the provinces for the use of the court, the army, and the capital. ❋ Unknown (1206)

With the habit and profession of monks, the public and private worship of images was rigorously proscribed; and it should seem, that a solemn abjuration of idolatry was exacted from the subjects, or at least from the clergy, of the Eastern empire. ❋ Unknown (1206)

That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the Barbarians. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Their submission was accepted as a proof, not indeed of their sincere repentance, but of their actual distress; and a select number of their brave and robust youth was exacted from the faithless nation, as the most substantial pledge of their future moderation. ❋ Unknown (1206)

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