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Force
FORCE, n. [L. fortis. All words denoting force, power, strength, are from verbs which express straining, or driving, rushing, and this word has the elements of L. vireo.]
1. Strength; active power; vigor; might; energy that may be exerted; that physical property in a body which may produce action or motion in another body, or may counteract such motion. By the force of the muscles we raise a weight, or resist an assault.
2. Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.
3. That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.
4. Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power. Let conquerors consider that force alone can keep what force as obtained.
5. Strength; moral power to convince the mind. There is great force in an argument.
6. Virtue; efficacy. No presumption or hypothesis can be of force enough to overthrow constant experience.
7. Validity; power to bind or hold. If the conditions of a covenant are not fulfilled, the contract is of no force. A testament is of force after the testator is dead. Heb 9:17.
8. Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force: sometimes in the plural; as military forces.
9. Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.
10. Internal power; as the force of habit.
11. In law, any unlawful violence to person or property. This is simple, when no other crime attends it, as the entering into another's possession, without committing any other unlawful act. It is compound, when some other violence or unlawful act is committed. The law also implies force, as when a person enters a house or inclosure lawfully, but afterwards does an unlawful act. In this case, the law supposes the first entrance to be for that purpose, and therefore by force.
Physical force, is the force of material bodies.
Moral force, is the power of acting on the reason in judging and determining.
Mechanical force, is the power that belongs to bodies at rest or in motion. The pressure or tension of bodies at rest is called a mechanical force, and so is the power of a body in motion. There is also the force of gravity or attraction, centrifugal and centripetal forces, expansive force, etc.
FORCE, v.t.
1. To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their slaves to labor.
2. To overpower by strength.
I should have forced thee soon with other arms.
3. To impel; to press; to drive; to draw or push by main strength; a sense of very extensive use; as, to force along a wagon or a ship; to force away a man's arms; water forces its way through a narrow channel; a man may be forced out of his possessions.
4. To enforce; to urge; to press.
Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore.
5. To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.
6. To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.
7. To ravish; to violate by force, as a female.
8. To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.
9. To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.
10. To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison. Obs.
To force from, to wrest from; to extort.
To force out, to drive out; to compel to issue out or to leave; also, to extort.
To force wine, is to fine it by a short process, or in a short time.
To force plants, is to urge the growth of plants by artificial heat.
To force meat, is to stuff it.
FORCE, v.i.
1. To lay stress on. Obs.
2. To strive. Obs.
3. To use violence.
force appears in definitions for these words:
Ability Ableness Accent Acquest Act Action Active Adjunct Advocate Affected Afforage Afforcement Affront Agitate Air-gun Alive All Alluvium Amain Anemometer Antiperistasis Antiquated Archon Arktizite Armament Assailing Assault Assaulted Assaulting Attach Attack Attacked Attacking Attraction Attractive Authority Avail Available Availableness Balance Balancing Ballast Ballasted Banderet Bate Battle Battle-array Bear Beat Beg Besiege Besieging Bestor Binding Blast Blench Blockade Blow-pipe Blunt Board Boarding Body Bond Bosporian Bouncing Bow Break Breakwater Bring Brunt Burst By Calculator Call Cannon Captivate Captive Captivity Capture Carding-machine Carry Cast Catachrestical Catachrestically Cause Central Centrifugal Centripetal Cessation Cession Chaplain Chili Choice Chop Chuet Circumlocution Clash Cleave Climax Club-law Coacted Coaction Coerce Coerced Coercing Coercion Coercive Cogency Cogent Cogently Combat Combating Command Commandant Commandatory Commander Common Compass Compel Compellable Compelled Compelling Competent Compress Compressed Compressible Compression Compressure Compulsative Compulsion Compulsive Compulsively Compulsiveness Compulsorily Compulsory Condense Condenser Confine Confinement Confirmatory Conquer Conqueror Conquest Conscription Constrain Constrainable Constrained Constraining Constraint Constringe Contractile Contractility Contranitency Controll Convoy Convoyed Corrector Cotton-mill Cough Counterpoise Counterpressure Countervail Countervailed Courses Cram Craze Crop Crows-bill Crowth Cruelty Crush Crushing Danegelt Dead Deaden Defend Defending Definitive Deflour Deforser Defy Deliberate Depredate Derogate Despoil Despoiler Detrude Detruded Dig Dilacerate Dilatability Dilatable Dint Dis Disaccustom Disanchor Disannul Disannulling Disannulment Disarm Disjoint Disobedient Dispatch Dispel Disposable Disseized Dissever Dissilient Distend Distended Disthene Distill Distort Diversion Divert Divorce Divorced Downwards Drag Dragged Dragging Dragon-fly Dragoon Draught Draw Drench Drift Drifting Drive Driven Driving Dynamics Earwig Ease Effect Effective Effectual Efforce Effort Ejaculation Ejection Elastic Elasticity Elatery Elude Emphasis Empower Empty Endure Enemy Energetic Energetically Energize Energizing Energy Enervate Enervating Enfeeble Enforce Enforced Enforcement Enforcing Engagement Enjoin Equilibrium Equipoise Equipollence Equipollent Equivalence Equivalent Ereption Establishment Evade Evincibly Evulsion Exact Exaction Excitability Excitable Exert Expansive Expel Expelled Expire Explode Exploding Explosion Explosive Express Expressed Expressive Expressiveness Expugnable Extinct Extort Extorting Extortion Extractor Extravasated Extravasation Extrude Faintly Fall Far-fetched Farce Fatuous Fear Feeble Feebleness Fill Fillip Fire Fissure Flexible Flexile Flight Flimsy Fluidity Fly Foraminous Force Forced Forcedness Forceful Forceless Forcer Forcible Forcibleness Forcibly Forcipated Fortify Foul Fraud Fro Fullness Ga Gag Generalissimo Give Go Gouge Gravitation Gravity Greatness Ground Guile Gush Hale Hard Haul Hauled Hauling Haven Hawk Head Head-piece Heave Heavy Herculean High Hit Hold Hook Hostile Hurl Hurling Hybrid Hydraulics Hydrodynamic Hydrometer Hydrometry Iambus Imbody Impair Impel Impelled Impellent Imperiously Impetuosity Impetuous Impetuously Impetus Impose Impregnable Impregnably Impudence Impulse Impulsive Impulsively Inability Incoercible Incompressibility Incompressible Increase Inculcate Indissolubility Ineffective Inefficacious Inefficient Inertitude Inertness Inexpugnable Influence Insignificance Instinctively Insufficiency Intensive Intensively Into Introspection Intrude Invalid Invalidate Invalidated Invalidating Invalidity Invasion Investigate Investment Irrefragableness Irresistibleness Jade Joint Justle Knock Landflood Law Lay Lee Leer Legion Legionary Legislature Letter Liberty Life Lifeless Light Line Little Loud Low Lug Machine Machinery Magnetic Main Maintain Maintainable Mall Mam Maneuver Marine Mark Mechanic Mechanically Mechanics Might Mightily Mince Moment Moral More Mortgage Motion Mouth Move Muster Muster-book Natural Naturally Nature Naval Necessity Nerve Nervousness Never No Nude Nugatory Null Nullify Nullity Ob Obligation Oblige Obtrude Obtruded Obtrusion Of Offer Once Operative Order Ourself Out Outward Overmatch Overpower Overpress Pandect Perforce Peroration Perpetual Pertness Phalanx Physical Pier Pierce Pierced Piercing Piercingly Pillage Pillaged Pinch Pith Pithily Pithiness Pithless Pithy Pleonasm Pliability Pliableness Pliant Pluck Plunder Plunger Ply Point Poorness Potently Pour Power Powerful Powerfully Powerfulness Powerless Pregnable Preponderance Press Pressed Pressing Pressingly Pressure Prevail Prevalence Prey Privy Prize Projectile Proof Propel Proportional Protrude Puissance Pull Pulse Pump Purchase Push Put Raise Ram Rammer Ramming Range Rapacious Rapacity Rape Rapine Rate Ravage Ravish Ravished Ravisher Ravishing Re-enforce Re-enforced Re-enforcement Re-enforcing React Realize Realized Realizing Rebound Reciprocally Redact Redundant Refractory Reinforce Reinforced Reinforcement Reinforcing Remission Rend Renitent Rent Repel Repulse Rescue Resistance Resistible Restem Restrain Resultant Retentive Retrofract Rhetoric Rifle Rise Rive Robber Robust Run Safety-valve Sawyer Screen Screw Screwed Seize Seized Seizing Seizure Self-restrained Send Seraskier Settle Shall Shatter Shock Shoot Shot Shotting Should Siege Significancy Significantly Signify Since Sing Sink Slam Slightly Slightness Smallness Smite Sneeze Snort Softly Solicit Soothe Sound Spend Split Spoil Spontaneously Spring Sprit Spurt Squeeze Squeezing Squirt Starve Statute Steam Stem Storm Storming Strain Strength Stress Stretch Stretching Strike Strong Strong-hand Strongly Studious Stupration Subdue Subduer Subjugate Subterfuge Sum Swasher Sway Sweep Sword-law Syringe Taboo Tactics Take Tear Temperately Tempest Tenacity Test Then Thief Throb Throbbing Thrust Thrusting To Torsion Tough Trample Transpierce Trave Tremendous Truckle Turgid Turgidness Unabolished Uncompellable Uncompelled Unconstrainedly Undrawn Unelastic Unexacted Unforced Unforcible Unison Unnative Unnerve Unprevailing Unrepealed Unresisting Unrevived Unsinewed Unspent Unstrained Unyielding Urge Usurp Vain Valiantness Valid Validity Vast Vehemence Vehement Vehemently Vignette Vigorous Vigorously Vindicating Vindication Vindictive Violate Violence Violent Violently Vitiate Vivificate Vivification Void Voidable Voiding Voidness Volatile War Ward Warp Weak Weaken Weakness Weather Weather-driven Wedge Weigh Weight Weightily Weightiness What Whence Whirl-bat Whur Wind Wind-gun Wisdom With Withstand Witness Wound Wrench Wrest Wring Wringer
Ability Ableness Accent Acquest Act Action Active Adjunct Advocate Affected Afforage Afforcement Affront Agitate Air-gun Alive All Alluvium Amain Anemometer Antiperistasis Antiquated Archon Arktizite Armament Assailing Assault Assaulted Assaulting Attach Attack Attacked Attacking Attraction Attractive Authority Avail Available Availableness Balance Balancing Ballast Ballasted Banderet Bate Battle Battle-array Bear Beat Beg Besiege Besieging Bestor Binding Blast Blench Blockade Blow-pipe Blunt Board Boarding Body Bond Bosporian Bouncing Bow Break Breakwater Bring Brunt Burst By Calculator Call Cannon Captivate Captive Captivity Capture Carding-machine Carry Cast Catachrestical Catachrestically Cause Central Centrifugal Centripetal Cessation Cession Chaplain Chili Choice Chop Chuet Circumlocution Clash Cleave Climax Club-law Coacted Coaction Coerce Coerced Coercing Coercion Coercive Cogency Cogent Cogently Combat Combating Command Commandant Commandatory Commander Common Compass Compel Compellable Compelled Compelling Competent Compress Compressed Compressible Compression Compressure Compulsative Compulsion Compulsive Compulsively Compulsiveness Compulsorily Compulsory Condense Condenser Confine Confinement Confirmatory Conquer Conqueror Conquest Conscription Constrain Constrainable Constrained Constraining Constraint Constringe Contractile Contractility Contranitency Controll Convoy Convoyed Corrector Cotton-mill Cough Counterpoise Counterpressure Countervail Countervailed Courses Cram Craze Crop Crows-bill Crowth Cruelty Crush Crushing Danegelt Dead Deaden Defend Defending Definitive Deflour Deforser Defy Deliberate Depredate Derogate Despoil Despoiler Detrude Detruded Dig Dilacerate Dilatability Dilatable Dint Dis Disaccustom Disanchor Disannul Disannulling Disannulment Disarm Disjoint Disobedient Dispatch Dispel Disposable Disseized Dissever Dissilient Distend Distended Disthene Distill Distort Diversion Divert Divorce Divorced Downwards Drag Dragged Dragging Dragon-fly Dragoon Draught Draw Drench Drift Drifting Drive Driven Driving Dynamics Earwig Ease Effect Effective Effectual Efforce Effort Ejaculation Ejection Elastic Elasticity Elatery Elude Emphasis Empower Empty Endure Enemy Energetic Energetically Energize Energizing Energy Enervate Enervating Enfeeble Enforce Enforced Enforcement Enforcing Engagement Enjoin Equilibrium Equipoise Equipollence Equipollent Equivalence Equivalent Ereption Establishment Evade Evincibly Evulsion Exact Exaction Excitability Excitable Exert Expansive Expel Expelled Expire Explode Exploding Explosion Explosive Express Expressed Expressive Expressiveness Expugnable Extinct Extort Extorting Extortion Extractor Extravasated Extravasation Extrude Faintly Fall Far-fetched Farce Fatuous Fear Feeble Feebleness Fill Fillip Fire Fissure Flexible Flexile Flight Flimsy Fluidity Fly Foraminous Force Forced Forcedness Forceful Forceless Forcer Forcible Forcibleness Forcibly Forcipated Fortify Foul Fraud Fro Fullness Ga Gag Generalissimo Give Go Gouge Gravitation Gravity Greatness Ground Guile Gush Hale Hard Haul Hauled Hauling Haven Hawk Head Head-piece Heave Heavy Herculean High Hit Hold Hook Hostile Hurl Hurling Hybrid Hydraulics Hydrodynamic Hydrometer Hydrometry Iambus Imbody Impair Impel Impelled Impellent Imperiously Impetuosity Impetuous Impetuously Impetus Impose Impregnable Impregnably Impudence Impulse Impulsive Impulsively Inability Incoercible Incompressibility Incompressible Increase Inculcate Indissolubility Ineffective Inefficacious Inefficient Inertitude Inertness Inexpugnable Influence Insignificance Instinctively Insufficiency Intensive Intensively Into Introspection Intrude Invalid Invalidate Invalidated Invalidating Invalidity Invasion Investigate Investment Irrefragableness Irresistibleness Jade Joint Justle Knock Landflood Law Lay Lee Leer Legion Legionary Legislature Letter Liberty Life Lifeless Light Line Little Loud Low Lug Machine Machinery Magnetic Main Maintain Maintainable Mall Mam Maneuver Marine Mark Mechanic Mechanically Mechanics Might Mightily Mince Moment Moral More Mortgage Motion Mouth Move Muster Muster-book Natural Naturally Nature Naval Necessity Nerve Nervousness Never No Nude Nugatory Null Nullify Nullity Ob Obligation Oblige Obtrude Obtruded Obtrusion Of Offer Once Operative Order Ourself Out Outward Overmatch Overpower Overpress Pandect Perforce Peroration Perpetual Pertness Phalanx Physical Pier Pierce Pierced Piercing Piercingly Pillage Pillaged Pinch Pith Pithily Pithiness Pithless Pithy Pleonasm Pliability Pliableness Pliant Pluck Plunder Plunger Ply Point Poorness Potently Pour Power Powerful Powerfully Powerfulness Powerless Pregnable Preponderance Press Pressed Pressing Pressingly Pressure Prevail Prevalence Prey Privy Prize Projectile Proof Propel Proportional Protrude Puissance Pull Pulse Pump Purchase Push Put Raise Ram Rammer Ramming Range Rapacious Rapacity Rape Rapine Rate Ravage Ravish Ravished Ravisher Ravishing Re-enforce Re-enforced Re-enforcement Re-enforcing React Realize Realized Realizing Rebound Reciprocally Redact Redundant Refractory Reinforce Reinforced Reinforcement Reinforcing Remission Rend Renitent Rent Repel Repulse Rescue Resistance Resistible Restem Restrain Resultant Retentive Retrofract Rhetoric Rifle Rise Rive Robber Robust Run Safety-valve Sawyer Screen Screw Screwed Seize Seized Seizing Seizure Self-restrained Send Seraskier Settle Shall Shatter Shock Shoot Shot Shotting Should Siege Significancy Significantly Signify Since Sing Sink Slam Slightly Slightness Smallness Smite Sneeze Snort Softly Solicit Soothe Sound Spend Split Spoil Spontaneously Spring Sprit Spurt Squeeze Squeezing Squirt Starve Statute Steam Stem Storm Storming Strain Strength Stress Stretch Stretching Strike Strong Strong-hand Strongly Studious Stupration Subdue Subduer Subjugate Subterfuge Sum Swasher Sway Sweep Sword-law Syringe Taboo Tactics Take Tear Temperately Tempest Tenacity Test Then Thief Throb Throbbing Thrust Thrusting To Torsion Tough Trample Transpierce Trave Tremendous Truckle Turgid Turgidness Unabolished Uncompellable Uncompelled Unconstrainedly Undrawn Unelastic Unexacted Unforced Unforcible Unison Unnative Unnerve Unprevailing Unrepealed Unresisting Unrevived Unsinewed Unspent Unstrained Unyielding Urge Usurp Vain Valiantness Valid Validity Vast Vehemence Vehement Vehemently Vignette Vigorous Vigorously Vindicating Vindication Vindictive Violate Violence Violent Violently Vitiate Vivificate Vivification Void Voidable Voiding Voidness Volatile War Ward Warp Weak Weaken Weakness Weather Weather-driven Wedge Weigh Weight Weightily Weightiness What Whence Whirl-bat Whur Wind Wind-gun Wisdom With Withstand Witness Wound Wrench Wrest Wring Wringer
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