Obs. Also 7 extortour. [a. L. extortor, agent-n. f. extorquēre: see EXTORT.] a. One who extorts; = EXTORTER. b. One who strains (a law); cf. EXTORT v. 3 b.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 243 b. An importunate begger is compared to an extortor.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xiii. § 7. A great Enemie he was to Promoters, Pettifoggers, and Extortours of penall lawes.
1614. W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), 128. The Extortor thereof dyed by Famine.
