[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who extorts something from another; an extortioner.
1824. Bristol Mercury, 5 Jan., 3/2. Finding in the one case that it is to enrich the extortionist.
1844. Christian Messenger, Feb., 293. A man in buying a piece of property may offer a sum which in conscience he believes to be far below its value—or he may sell a piece of property for far more than in conscience he thinks it worth.—In either case he is an extortionist.
1885. in Ogilvie.
