[f. prec. sb.] a. intr. To practise extortion. Const. upon. b. trans. To charge extortionate prices to; to overcharge.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxxiii. 267. The soldyours stale and extorcioned vpon both partyes.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), IV. xxi. 251. Yf he extorcyon or dystresse or gyueth ayde or consentynge that to do.
1663. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1792), I. 124. For such [meat] as they got they were extortioned.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, viii. A bed and a breakfast … for which they extortioned me three shillings and sax-pence. [Still in dialectal use (Chesh.).]
Hence † Extortioning ppl. a.
1655. Heywood, Fort. by Land, IV. Wks. 1874, VI. 423. My poor usuring, extortioning Master.
