If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox
shall be stoned.
Ex. xxi. 32.
3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. "
To push his fortune." Dryden.
Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure
honor to the actor.
Spectator.
We are pushed for an answer.
Swift.