dragooned

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. [1913 Webster]

The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they can be dragooned to nothing.— Price.[1913 Webster]
Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying to dragoon his subjects to heaven.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
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