1552. Huloet, Extorted, compilatus.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 18. With extorted powre and borrow’d strength.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. vii. 105. Are my Chests filled vp with extorted Gold?
1632. Lithgow, Trav., V. 206. Weary and extorted Trauellers.
1667. Flavel, Saint Indeed (1754), 136. These extorted complaints.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 403. Live without extorted alms From grudging hands.
1826. Scott, Woodst., xv. An extorted promise of silence.
1865. Hook, Lives Abps., III. vii. 449. The rack-extorted admissions of the persecuted Templars.
† b. Strained, forced. Obs.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., Introd. (1666), 9/1. How extorted and unnatural are the derivations of the Allumæote from Almodad, of the Manitæ from Abimail, [etc.].
Hence † Extortedly adv., by extortion.
1640. Ld. Digby, Sp. Trienn. Parl. (1641), 14. A King that had … given all the Rights and Liberties of his Subjects a more cleare and ample confirmation freely and gratiously, then any of his Predecessors … extortedly.
