Milton.
To force a spotless virgin's chastity.
Shak.
4. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle;
specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or
violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into,
through, out, etc.
It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor
forced the steel away.
Dryden.
To force the tyrant from his seat by war.
Sahk.
Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion.
Fuller.
6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to
enforce. [Obs.]
What can the church force more?
J. Webster.
7. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to
excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural
effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force
fruits.
High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and
gathering to the shore.
Dryden.
8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by
leading a suit of which he has none.
9. To provide with forces; to reÎnforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to
man; to garrison. [Obs.] Shak.