a. [f. as prec. + -ARY.] Given to or characterized by extortion.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 60. The fixed shopkeeper is not only less extortionary to his customer, but is more taxable to the state.
1831. Capt. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, I. 41. The extortionary Jew, chuckling with ecstacy at the usury he was about to realize.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, I. 365. The overbearing and extortionary spirit of that military rule.
