2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.

Price.

Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.

Macaulay.

Drag`oon*ade" (?), n. See Dragonnade.

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