[f. FORCE v.1 + -ING2.] That forces, in senses of the vb.
1551. T. Wilson, Logike (1580), 42 b. As an ague may be the happenyng cause, that some one man kepeth good diet, & yet not any forcyng cause: for then all sicke folke might be compted for sober men.
1659. Milton, Civ. Power, Wks. (1851), V. 317. The forcing protestant though he deny such beleef to any church whatsoever, yet takes it to himself and his teachers, of far less autoritie then to be calld the church and above scripture beleevd.
1686. Horneck, Crucif. Jesus, xiv. 302. Among the more barbarous sort of Mankind, when in these Cases they had slain the Beast, they pour’d the Blood of the Hog, or Calf, or Ox, that was shed, into a Cup, and the Confederates drank of it, to make they Tye stronger, and the Execration more dreadful, and consequently more forcing.
1791. T. Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 153. The thin, early, forcing, and sandy soil of Murray.
1809. W. Nicol (title), The Forcing, Fruit, and Kitchen Gardener.
1862. ‘Cavendish,’ Whist (1870), 28. A forcing card is a card which compels one of the players to trump in order to win the trick.
1886. Pall Mall G., 28 July, 6/1. A changeable and far from forcing summer.
Hence † Forcingly adv., in a forcing manner.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 176. This holy Father (with no little commiserate hart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the Clergie (for he was at that time their chiefe Bishop) to assemble in praier & supplications, and deale forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgiue them.
1616–61. Holyday, Persius, 305.
| Yet doth he cry, | |
| And with his Entrals and his dainty Cake | |
| Strives to o’recome, and forcingly will make | |
| The gods to hear. |
