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coërcēre (coherc-) [CL] 1 to confine. b (med.) to bind, constrict. Osuiu ‥ aequalibus pene terminis regnum ‥ ~ens Bede HE II 5.  b oxicantos arbor est ‥ ~entis virtutis Alph. 133. 2 to regulate, order, subdue. b to check or punish (acts). rerum genitor mundum sermone coercens Aldh. Aen. 100. 64; alia hujusmodi plura quam ut ad discipline modum ~eri posse videantur Balsh. AD rec. 2 153; [angeli] omnia adversa ~ent sine resistencia et contradictione Bart. Angl. II 2.  b cataclismorum irruptio mortalium flagitia ~ens Aldh. Met. 2; 9‥ ~uit, bewerede WW; 1305 quorum rebellionem et contumaciam ‥ ~eat regalis potencia DCWestm. 18/5, 801. 3 to check or punish (persons). b (w. ab) to restrain (from). c (w. ad) to force, compel (to). d (w. inf.) to compel. 786 incantatores, divinos, veneficos, sortilegos ~eat Alcuin Ep. 3; monastico more flagellis ~itus W. Malm. GR III 293; quam ‥ terribiliter adversarios suos ‥ ~uerit (Mir. Accae) S. Durh. HR 37; 12‥ integram decimam ‥ solvat ecclesie sue matrici; ‥ et, si contra fecerit, per censuram ecclesiasticam coarceatur Conc. Scot. II 22; 1257 reservata nobis potestate molestatores per censuram ecclesiasticam ‥ ~endi Reg. Aberd. I 26; 1300 contradictores et rebelles regularibus disciplinis ~eantur Vis. Ely 16; 1418 ut, quem Dei timor ‥ a malo non revocat, saltem choerciat animadversio potencie regie potestatis Reg. Heref. 99.  b s1251 ut subjectos ‥ a peccatis ~eret M. Par. Maj. V 227.  c [falco] alias aves ‥ solebat ‥ ad terram ab aere ‥ ~ere Gir. TH II 37; 1201 liceat ‥ regi ~ere me per ‥ redditus et beneficia mea ‥ ad illius pecunie solutionem RChart 102a; s1235 qui in equis sedentes pretiosis ad agiles cursum calcaribus admonentibus ~ebant [Wend. III 111: ad agilem eos cursum urgebant] M. Par. Maj. III 322.  d quas [naves] principis nobilitas ‥ in portum suum de Harfleur sese recolligere coarcebat Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 32. 4 to compel, coerce (absol.). potestas ‥ humana ~endi ‥ dividitur in potestatem spiritualem et laicalem Ockham Pol. I 14.

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