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Definition of Exacters
1. exacter [n] - See also: exacter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exacters
Literary usage of Exacters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis by Richard Hakluyt, Charles Raymond Beazley, Willem van Ruysbroeck (1903)
"... of them hath taken more drinke then his stomacke can well beare, hee casteth
it vp and falles to drinking againe. They are most intolerable exacters, ..."
2. History of St. Andrews: Episcopal, Monastic, Academic, and Civil, Comprising by Charles Jobson Lyon (1843)
"... and exacters of this oath and covenant cannot instruct or qualifie themselves
to be, we, as his majestie's free subjects and ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1921)
"Nay, follow us that we may make a covenant of marriage by the seafaring ships,
for we are no hard exacters of gifts of wooing." Therewith the hero Idomeneus ..."
4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"... they developed the military art to a very high pitch, and became mighty raiders
and exacters of tribute ; and at last, adopting the horse and the war ..."
5. The Rambler by Samuel Johnson (1809)
"It is beyond the>powersof humanity to spend a whole life in profound study and
intense meditation, and the most rigorous exacters of industry and ..."
6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... but have been deceitful in their callings, and have been exacters, and have
not been true to their word; by such doings they cause the holy name of the ..."
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