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<i>Hooker.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To strengthen; to grow strong.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Enforce</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*force"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Force; strength; power.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A petty enterprise of small <b>enforce</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Enforceable</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*force"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being enforced.</def>

<h1>Enforced</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*forced"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Compelled; forced; not voluntary.</def> "<i>Enforced</i> wrong." "<i>Enforced</i> smiles." <i>Shak</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>En*for"ced*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Enforcement</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*force"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>enforcement</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of enforcing; compulsion.</def>

<blockquote>He that contendeth against these <b>enforcements</b> may easily master or resist them. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Confess 't was hers, and by what rough <b>enforcement</b> You got it from her. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A giving force to; a putting in execution.</def>

<blockquote><b>Enforcement</b> of strict military discipline. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.</def>

<blockquote>The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the <b>enforcements</b> of his law. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Enforcer</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*for"cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who enforces.</def>

<h1>Enforcible</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*for"ci*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That may be enforced.</def>

<h1>Enforcive</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*for"cive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.</def> <i>Marsion</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>En*for"cive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Enforest</h1> <Xpage=492>

<hw>En*for"est</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To turn into a forest.</def>