Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To withhold (property, for example) from the rightful owner.
- transitive verb To deprive (a rightful owner) of something, especially property.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In law:
- To withhold from or keep out of lawful possession, as of an estate.
- In Scots law, to resist (an officer of the law in the execution of his official duty).
- noun Deforcement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
- transitive verb (Scots Law) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law, transitive To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights was a tour deforce.
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Those who nowadays introduce such flavours into beverages deforce our sense of pleasure by habituating us to them, until, from two distinct kinds of sensations combined, pleasure arises as it might from one simple kind.
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Those who nowadays introduce such flavours into beverages deforce our sense of pleasure by habituating us to them, until, from two distinct kinds of sensations combined, pleasure arises as it might from one simple kind.
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But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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