Word Meanings - OUTWREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to OUTWREST)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• FORTHRIGHTNESS
  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
• EXTORTIONER
  , One who practices extortion.
• EXTORT
  To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2. (more info) 1. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away ; to tear away; to wring
• VIOLENCE
  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
• EXTORTIONARY
  Extortionate.
• EXTORTER
  One who practices extortion.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• FORTHWITH
  As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Immediately; without delay; directly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith.
• FORTHGOING
  A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.
• FORTHRIGHT
  A straight path. Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! Shak.
• FORTH
  1. Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this
• EXTORTION
  The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due. Abbott. 3. That which is extorted or exacted by force. Syn. -- Oppression;
• EXTORTIOUS
  Extortionate. "Extortious cruelties." Bp. Hall -- Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. Bacon.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• EXTORTIONATE
  Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
• FORTHBY
  See FORBY
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• FERFORTH
  Far forth. As ferforth as, as far as. -- So ferforth, to such a degree.
• STRAIGHTFORTH
  Straightway.