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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exacted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Exacting}.] [From L. exactus p. p. of exigere or fr LL
exactare: cf OF exacter. See {Exact}, a.]
To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
right to enforce the payment of or a yielding of to compel
to yield or to furnish; hence to wrest, as a fee or reward
when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one
subjected to exaction; as to exact tribute, fees, obedience,
etc., from or of some one
He said into them Exact no more than that which is
appointed you --Luke. iii.
13.
Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward
at last --Dryden.
My designs Exact me in another place --Massinger.
more about exacted
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