[f. EXIGENT sb.1 and 2.] trans. † a. To subject (a person or thing) to. b. To carry out a writ of exigent against.
1656. S. H., Gold. Law, 4. [They] forfeit their faith, love and loyalty to their Lord, the Publike Welfare, by exigenting it to intolerable sufferings and dangers.
1837. Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, iv. 241. Were you by the Coroner in County Court duly exigented and proclaimed?
