Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Labor; effort; toil.
- noun The exaction of forced service; impressment to labor or service.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Exaction of forced service; compulsion.
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- noun obsolete
exaction offorced service ;compulsion
Etymologies
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Latin angariatio, from Latin angaria service to a lord, villenage, from Ancient Greek (a Persian word), a courier for carrying royal dispatches.
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_angaria_, _angariare_, in medieval Latin, and the rare English derivatives "angariate," "angariation," came to mean any service which was forcibly or unjustly demanded, and oppression in general.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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