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dragooned |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr & vb n. {Dragooning}.] 1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. 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.
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