Obs. [f. prec.: see -ATION. Prob. already in med.L. or Fr.] The exaction of forced service; impressment to labor or service.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. ix. (1632), 613. The Popes continuall angariations and extortions.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 153. This leading of God’s Spirit must neither be a forced angariation, nor some sudden protrusion to good.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm., 336. There are violence, injustice, a thousand angariations in the kingdoms of the world.
