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Coact vs Coarct - What's the difference?

coact | coarct |

As verbs the difference between coact and coarct

is that coact is to compel, constrain, force while coarct is to coarctate.

As an adjective coact

is forced, constrained, done under compulsion.

coact

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of (etyl) coagere.

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
  • * Foxe
    • The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Forced, constrained, done under compulsion.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.244:
    • too much solitarinessis either coact , enforced, or else voluntary.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (coact)
  • (rare) To work together.
    • Synonyms
    * to cooperate

    References

    *" coact" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2007.

    coarct

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To coarctate.
  • * 1995 , Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age , Bantam Books 2008, page 35:
    • All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles,
    a coarcted aorta

    References

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