extorted, ppl. a.
(ɛkˈstɔːtɪd)
[f. extort v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb. Cf. extort ppl. a.
| 1552 Huloet, Extorted, compilatus. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 18 With extorted powre and borrow'd strength. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 105 Are my Chests filled vp with extorted Gold? 1632 Lithgow Trav. V. 206 Weary and extorted Trauellers. 1667 J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 136 These extorted complaints. 1784 Cowper Task iv. 403 Live without extorted alms From grudging hands. 1826 Scott Woodst. xv, An extorted promise of silence. 1865 Hook Lives Abps. III. vii. 449 The rack-extorted admissions of the persecuted Templars. |
† b. Strained, forced. Obs.
| 1622–62 Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1666) 10 How extorted and unnatural are the derivations of the Allumæotæ from Almodad, of the Manitæ from Abimail, etc. |
Hence † exˈtortedly adv., by extortion.
| 1640 Ld. Digby Sp. Trienn. Parl. (1641) 14 A King that had..given all the Rights and Liberties of his Subjects a more cleare and ample confirmation freely and gratiously, then all his Predecessors..extortedly. |