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Definition of Exacted
1. exact [v] - See also: exact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exacted
Literary usage of Exacted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"And they that receive a declaration of another's will, but at the same time have
it not exacted of them, have it not as a law, but only as an instruction or ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"This was an action brought to recover duty alleged to have been illegally exacted
by the defendant, as Collector of tlie Port of Xew York, upon certain ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1830)
"And they that receive a declaration of another's will, but at the same time have
it not exacted of them, have it not as a law, but only as an instruction or ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"Under the act of 1903 the question whether there was an overcharge depended upon
the fact whether the amount exacted for the transportation of the goods was ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He exacted heavy annual tribute from every one of these twenty provinces, ...
On his way back, he exacted tribute from the Syrian and Phoenician kings, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As he wished to secure the obedience of Maximian, he exacted from him, either a
general assurance that he would submit his actions to the authority of his ..."
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